A NEW BALL OF WAX: Scientists recently published a report that they’d used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human embryos, prompting a call for a moratorium on such research.© ISTOCK.COM/GEOPAUL
—Harvard stem cell researcher George Daley, in a Nature news story about a paper in Protein & Cell by a research team reporting the use of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human embryos (April 22)
—Philippa Brice of health policy think-tank the PHG Foundation, reacting to the news of the paper reporting to have genetically engineered human embryos (The Telegraph, April 23)
—Science writer Kelly Hills, in a blog post about reports that Science, Nature, and other top-tier journals rejected, on ethical grounds, a paper by a research team reporting that they used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human embryos (April 23)
—University of Arizona environmental microbiologist Raina Maier, in a Scientific American guest blog post about the dangers of altering the planet’s microbiome (April 22)
—Dartmouth ...
