Vice President Biden’s invitation was perhaps the most resounding affirmation of this technology’s significance for the field of public health. Just as powerful as the implications for CRISPR research was the reason behind the invitation: Biden would be holding a press conference where he, along with scientists and clinicians, would unveil an initiative by President Obama to coordinate efforts to treat and cure cancer. In the tradition of the 1960s American space program that resolved to—and, in short order, did—send humans to the moon, this “cancer moonshot” aimed to rally the country’s best
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