Yet another one of these blockbuster studies on gene editing as a way to "erase" diseases may turn out to be a premature fanfare.
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Inter-homologue repair in fertilized human eggs? | bioRxiv
Was the big paper about the successful editing of human embryo genes wrong?
"...A month ago, an international team of researchers announced that they had used a gene-editing technique to safely erase a heritable heart condition from a human embryo. This blockbuster news was greeted with both excitement and fear. Now the scientific community is buzzing about a new critique that questions the main conclusions of their paper."
"...Paul Knoepfler, a stem-cell scientist at the University of California at Davis who was not involved in either paper, called Egli's arguments “rather compelling.” He wrote in a blog post, “To me, these possible alternative explanations just simply make a lot of sense and are things that should have been ruled out as alternative explanations.”
Hey @Drareg, I think you will like this.
Inter-homologue repair in fertilized human eggs? | bioRxiv
Was the big paper about the successful editing of human embryo genes wrong?
"...A month ago, an international team of researchers announced that they had used a gene-editing technique to safely erase a heritable heart condition from a human embryo. This blockbuster news was greeted with both excitement and fear. Now the scientific community is buzzing about a new critique that questions the main conclusions of their paper."
"...Paul Knoepfler, a stem-cell scientist at the University of California at Davis who was not involved in either paper, called Egli's arguments “rather compelling.” He wrote in a blog post, “To me, these possible alternative explanations just simply make a lot of sense and are things that should have been ruled out as alternative explanations.”