Few medical innovations have engendered as much excitement as CRISPR, but the gene -
editing technology raises serious ethical questions: Will the power to edit our own DNA outpace our ability to decide as a society how far we want to go?
Not exact matches
But the advent of such revolutionary
technologies, as well as others such as CRISPR - Cas9 and gene -
editing, have
raised concerns about a brave new world where «designer babies» are a possibility.
A revolutionary gene -
editing technology made headlines this year as much for the ethical and societal issues it
raised as for the scientific accomplishments it enabled.