A buzzworthy biology topic is a revolutionary new method to ‘edit’ DNA that has spread to thousands of labs around the world just in the last couple of years. Suddenly, it¹s no longer purely science fiction that humankind will have the ability to tinker with its own gene pool. But should it? Jeffrey Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, is quoted. Research by Keith Joung, professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is cited.
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