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FBL97: Nessa Carey - Epigenetics & Gene Editing

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

CHAPTER

How to Edit a Human Embryo

There's a lot more power there than in the adult, right? Because at that stage you don't have to worry about not being able to get it to the right area because it goes to every single cell. The chances of anyone ever being allowed to do that are vanishingly remote. You can't edit a human embryo and then re-implant that embryo into a woman. It's against the law pretty much everywhere. So it could happen but it's certainly not the intention. Right now the idea of having chameleon genes is really really appealing to me, I really like chameleon.

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