'It's correcting nature's mistakes — and nature does make a bunch of mistakes.'
But at the same time, some of the critiques — particularly the "playing God" argument so often invoked against gene editing tech — might actually be distracting from its real, available, and very much life-saving applications.
"If we could reduce the amount of chemo that patients take, we're not introducing a new treatment paradigm," he said. "We're just helping the [existing patient treatments] work better."in simpler terms, Kmiec offered a metaphor that a lot of geneticists often turn to: that CRISPR is less a total genetic rewrite and more a "genetic spell checker.
"Religion has its own place, but evolution is true," Kmiec explained. "We're not playing God. We're just mimicking what nature does."
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