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I have thought a lot about the way that the crispr technology

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might be used.

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And I mostly feel excited because I think that it's a very a very

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exciting technology that's going to do a lot of good in human

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society and for human health.

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I do think that there are reasons to be cautious in in the way

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we implemented for various things in particular for doing clinical

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applications in embryos, like human embryos.

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If you do the editing in adult tissues,

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those are changes that are made in an individual,

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but they're not passed on to children.

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I think most people would feel that genome-editing

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in adults is or at least might be for some applications

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are very appropriate technology.

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It might be analogous to taking a pill or any other kind of therapeutic

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drug that you might use in a patient's for treating cancer

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or some other disease and if you could do something profound,

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like eliminate sickle cell anemia or eliminate cystic fibrosis

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or have someone not have to suffer from Huntington's

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disease anymore or worry about getting it when they get older

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what's only raises ethical implications is whether that sort of

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change should be made in eggs or sperm or embryos where

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those changes could then be passed On to the Next Generation.

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So I feel that that it's appropriate with guidelines to conduct

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research in those kinds of systems even in human embryos.

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I don't think that it would be appropriate to use this technology

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at least today for any kind of clinical application in human

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embryos.

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Science is going a thousand miles an hour.

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One of the rules that we are scientists need to play is to really

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communicate the power of this technology and how we can be responsible

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and using it for that conversation to carry weight.

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Globally. It really needs to be a conversation that involves

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scientist that are international do we know enough about the

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human genome to understand the impact of making changes to it

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in a in a developing embryo until I think that they are I would

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like to see our society draw line and say that,

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you know, we won't go there right now will will take the time

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that we need to really think about about this.