Ethicist Argues for Germline Changes

Nov 22, 2019

A bioethicist argues that genetically modifying infants could be justified, the BBC reports.

Researcher He Jiankui announced about a year ago that he had used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to alter the genomes of two twin girls as embryos. This revelation was broadly condemned as unethical and premature.

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