Tag: RNA

  • Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing?

    Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing?

    By Sharon Begley (STAT) WASHINGTON — At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you’d expect researchers to show pretty slides of the ribbony 3-D structure of the CRISPR-Cas9 molecules neatly snipping out disease-causing genes in order to, everyone hopes, cure illnesses from cancer to muscular dystrophy. Less expected: slides of someone kneeling on a beach with his head in […]