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Mixed Nuffield Council Report Too Aspirational on Human Genetic Modification

It’s an odd confluence of events this week that (A) the Nuffield Council, an ethics think tank, gives a thumbs up in a new report to heritable human genetic modification that would probably include using CRISPR in the same week that (B) a new paper reports that CRISPR can cause unpredictable genomic damage and several other concerning reportsabout possible CRISPR technology side effects or…