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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by empath75 on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:53PM (#13840527)
Ethics or not, some country will do this, and they'll leave everyone else behind economically in a few generations.
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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by jszymborski on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:42PM (#13840903)
At the risk of being too simplistic, I'd say that Nazi Germany tried doing this, to little avail.
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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by theWatcher37 on Friday March 10, 2017 @03:34PM (#13841880)
That's like saying the nazis tried rockets so SpaceX will fail
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Re:CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos fo... by astrange on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:15PM (#13840700)
Or they won't, or they'll get worse somehow, or we'll all drown first.
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