(September 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I suspect the cost will prevent its widespread usage.
CRISPR Cas9 is cheap. And this is how they'll do it. Once they improve the accuracy, it will be available to almost everyone.
The ethical implications are not easy to solve, but I think the biggest thing is that we cannot allow any changes or modifications enter the genome. This is something that medical ethicists are agreed on.
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