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Recent public discourse about human germline gene editing

Thursday, August 3, 2017

ASHG Position Statement on Human Germline Gene Editing.

An ASHG workgroup, of which I am privileged to be a part, has published a position statement in the American Journal of Human Genetics regarding our society's current views on human germline genome editing.   Here's a link to the ASHG press release.
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Oregon researchers publish results on editing human embryos in Nature. Reduced mosaicism and insights into HDR in human zygotes.

Ma et al (PI: Shoukhrat Mitalipov) have published a highly anticipated paper in the Aug. 3 2017 issue of Nature:      Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos.  
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