Scientists ‘Not Ready to Create Super-Humans,’ Fearing Possible Risks
SputnikNews.com
19.02.2017
While the scientific community debates various aspects of gene editing, an international group of experts has warned against possible misuse of genetic engineering.
In an interview with Radio Sputnik, co-author of a report, which warns against possible misuse of genetic engineering and expert in the field, Richard Hynes, revealed more about current state-of-the-art of gene editing.
Prof. Dr. Hynes is currently working at Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to him, gene editing has “enormous potential” for curing serious diseases.
“There are recent developments that have greatly enhanced the ability to edit the human genome. They have a lot of potential. They have already been widely used in basic research in laboratories all over the world and there is enormous potential for that; to discover things about cells and ways to develop stem cells which one can use to model human diseases in the laboratory, not in people, and in that way understand them better and also test therapies against them before applying them to patients,” the expert told Sputnik.
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