@nature.com on Egli's human embryos base editing. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Quotes me on worries about risky efforts. Egli says that would be premature; yes, that's my point. I also agree w/Fyodor Urnov's that preimplantation testing is (almost always) a better solution even if this proves safe
The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that it will spur a rush to commercialize the approach.
