Sentences with phrase «employ germ line»

For his part, Eric Lander from the Broad Institute said in a December 1 presentation at the summit that the need to employ germ line editing would remain very, very rare thanks to other already available reproductive technologies like in - vitro fertilization that could help most people.

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So far, preventing disease by employing CRISPR — Cas9 to alter the human germ line — a human embryo, egg or sperm — has remained extremely controversial, due to concerns about unwittingly introducing errors or leaving stowaway unedited disease - causing mutations that would put future generations at risk of disease.