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The first-of-its-kind gene-editing tool for sickle cell disease was accelerated to market through a regulatory initiative.
NEW YORK—The genetics revolution has begun, in which scientists now have the ability to “hack the code of all of life, including our own” by manipulating the DNA that makes up the very foundation of our being, according to author and geopolitical expert, Jamie Metzl.
Biologists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have applied for a license to edit the genome of human embryos, a controversial practice that is currently banned in the UK, as well as the United States and most of Western Europe.
