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Science hype: award for worst CRISPR media headline of year

Science hype is one of the more troublesome issues in our field today especially at its interface with the media, and unfortunately a ‘great’ example of that came this past week in a headline from the Daily Mail on the new CRISPR of human embryos paper from Kathy Niakan’s group in the UK.

Although Niakan’s group was generally appropriately cautious in their new Naturepaper about potential…