One advocacy group opposed to
embryo editing goes further.
Not exact matches
«The use of genome -
editing techniques in this context is really the same as using any other method on an
embryo that is not
going to be implanted into a woman, and which will be destroyed after a few days of culture».
We'll have a post that
goes into the mouse genome
editing process in a bit more detail in the coming weeks, but, in this post, we will outline a simple method for selecting the guide RNA, validating its efficacy in vitro, and using it in mouse
embryos to generate gene modified mouse lines.
Debate about so - called germline
editing of eggs, sperm and
embryos has been
going on for decades, but it has come to a head in recent years with the development of a powerful new gene -
editing technology called Crispr - Cas9 that can make extremely precise
edits to DNA and which was used by the Chinese team and would be used by the British team.