News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unint... by wahern on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:30PM (#21717383)
I've assumed so, but I'm not a scientist by trade and never looked deeply into it. I just know that over the years I've crossed paths with several papers that showed infection of gametes (usually sperm) by common viruses and often gave them a cursory look. These papers always catch my attention because what I was taught in school never made sense to me. I mean, I know gametes are in some ways more fragile than most cells, and they are clearly isolated to an extent (for obvious reasons), but the imperviousness I was taught seemed unlikely and unsupportable. And because of that I've always been especially skeptical of arguments premised, directly or indirectly, on the extreme mutagenic fragility of gametes and germlines.

There are no comments on this comment yet.