Important advance commented in @nature.com reporting the first successful application of base editing approaches to human embryos. Both impressive and potentially worrysome. Study is not yet peer-reviewed, nor published, but deposited in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry it will spur a rush to commercialization.
