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Re:Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation in Human Embryos by technotony on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:16PM (#14914738)
Enough people living today will have their genome sequence that if that's true you can just edit in the 'diversity' later in the future if that's needed.
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Re:Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation in Human Embryos by RangerScience on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:33PM (#14914860)
That would miss part of the initial issue, which is: what if there's something wrong introduced as part of any editing process?
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