‘CRISPR’ wows the world, but do we really want gene-edited babies?

Early this yearat 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 doubt the pièce de resistance, the reason to be in Washington, D.C., on a v...