U.S. scientists have corrected a genetic heart mutation in embryos using CRISPR

 Speculation swirled after reports came out last week a group of U.S. scientists had CRISPR’d human embryos for the first time. The results of that initial study have now been released and the findings are quite astonishing. Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University have successfully used the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology to wipe out a… Read More