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Editing a human?

已有 2231 次阅读 2015-5-3 03:56 |个人分类:Tea Time/Coffee Break|系统分类:科普集锦| editing

English editing is what I do these days, for living. I don't like its Chinese translation, which is 英文润色. If one day "human gene editing" is used as a routine procedure, what will we call it in Chinese? 人类基因润色?Ha, ha.


From wikipedia: In April 2015, scientists from China published a paper in the journal Protein & Cell reporting results of an attempt to alter the DNA of non-viable human embryos using CRISPR to correct a mutation that causes beta thalassemia, a lethal heritable disorder.[113][114] According to the paper's lead author, the study had previously been rejected by both Nature and Science in part because of ethical concerns; the journals did not comment to reporters.[115] The experiments resulted in changing only some of the genes, and had off-target effects on other genes; the scientists who conducted the research noted that CRISPR is not ready for clinical application in reproductive medicine, and said to a reporter at Nature: “If you want to do it in normal embryos, you need to be close to 100%.... That’s why we stopped. We still think it’s too immature.”[115]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

 






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