'CRISPR' wows a world that also balks at the idea of gene-edited babies

CRISPR-Cas9 cover, Nature magazine, emphasizes
therapeutic uses of gene editingThis month at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, your blogger joined a huge, attentive, jam-packed crowd that was listening for the latest information on something called CRISPR, pronounced “crisper.” Their big reason for being there was to learn more about a technology that may change human life forever. For many of the meeting’s attendees this lecture was without do...