Quite the opposite occurred at the Senate briefing, which was hosted by Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin and included South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, and Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy (a doctor). “I was pleased that all of those senators, all of them, were encouraging of the general idea of editing as an important technology,” Doudna says. “I was surprised none of them were demanding more regulations. They just wanted to figure out, ‘Where do we go from here?’ ”
