Speculation swirled after reports came out last week that a group of U.S. scientists had CRISPR’d human embryos for the first time. CRISPR is also known as genetically editing DNA. The results of that initial study have now been released and the findings are quite astonishing. Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his colleagues from Oregon Health and Science University have successfully used the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology to wipe out a genetically inherited heart mutation in embryos.
US scientists have corrected a genetic heart mutation in embryos using CRISPR
