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A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans
2016-06-23 03:44:05 Post No. 78233594
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A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans
Anonymous
2016-06-23 03:44:05
Post No. 78233594
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https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/a-federal-safety-board-just-okd-the-first-crispr-trial-to-genetically-alter-humans/?ncid=rss
>In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists modified the DNA of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 — nearly half of them — failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics of altering human genes.
>Regulators don’t currently allow the use of CRISPR on human DNA in the United States, but researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have proposed the first human study using the technology. The proposal would allow these researchers to make T cells with the ability to attack three inherited types of cancer.
>A federal biosafety and ethics panel gave Penn the go-ahead earlier today to conduct research on human patients, but the idea will still need approval at the proposed medical centers where the research will potentially be conducted, and will need the OK from the Food and Drug Administration.
>The proposed early trial will involve up to 15 patients and help researchers determine the safety and viability of the technology on humans. It will also get solid backing from the Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy, tech billionaire Sean Parker‘s organization, which formally launched this spring to collaborate with research institutions to obliterate cancer.
This is the beginning of the gene arms race. Today we will be correcting gene defects, tommorow, we will be creating a new race of humans.
