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313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

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Is There a Precautionary Principle for Human Genome Editing?

Sydney Brenner joined the debates around a psilomar Sydney Brenner. He was also one of the key motor forces at the meeting and he said well yeah it's a you know what we're worried about is an accident but unlike say a road accident those kind of accidents don't tend to be self-replicate. The reality is that these things are amazingly complicated let's just go back to the blue-eyed boy baby, says Chrisitt.

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