Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?
Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement.
A colored light micrograph of a human embryo 48 to 72 hours after in vitro fertilization. “Human embryos become living human persons,” one bioethicist said. “The research is being done on future persons without their consent.”
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