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#533 - Matthew Cobb - Should We Genetically Edit Human Life?
Modern Wisdom
Do You Want to Edit Your Embryo?
When this report came out in 2017, the scientific press described it as being an amber light to gene editing. Some people did say very clearly do not do this. And they put their finger on the reason why you shouldn't. Why would you want to do it? But you don't get rid of genetic diseases by editing an embryo. What editing an embryo does is to allow a certain human being to be born. It doesn't actually hold you until you start fiddling around. None, a thousand, a million, we got, as I say, three and a half billion bits of DNA. How many you prepared to see go wrong? There was never only mention of that.
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