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China is particularly fertile ground for germline-editing research and development, as its scientists have led the way in employing CRISPR technology in several areas, including the first uses in nonhuman primates, nonviable human embryos, and human patients.
From here, things will progress much more quickly than either our species or our planet is accustomed to. It’s hard to predict what the average human genome will look like just a few decades from now. Who’s to say how our species or our world will appear in a few hundred years—or a few thousand?
The power to control our species’ genetic future is awesome and terrifying. Deciding how to handle it may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced.
the “pleasure of finding things out,” as physicist Richard Feynman put it.
We’re standing on the cusp of a new era, one in which we will have primary authority over life’s genetic makeup and all its vibrant and varied outputs.
