An­oth­er stark warn­ing over CRISPR/Cas9’s po­ten­tial to do last­ing harm dents share prices

Birthing any­thing new in biotech can be ex­treme­ly hard. But gene-edit­ing may win the prize for un­ex­pect­ed hur­dles.

Fast on the heels of scary re­ports that a pop­u­lar gene edit­ing tech could trig­ger an in­creased  can­cer risk, an­oth­er group of sci­en­tists is ring­ing a very loud alarm bell in Na­ture to­day warn­ing that CRISPR/Cas9 edit­ing trig­gers hav­oc in DNA that could well prove harm­ful to peo­ple.

Michael Kosic­ki, Kärt Tomberg and Al­lan Bradley de­liv­ered their warn­ing in un­mis­tak­able terms:

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