First Human Embryos Edited with CRISPR in US

First Human Embryos Edited with CRISPR in US
July 28, 2017
Field
Genetic Engineering
Focus
Body
Related To
Oregon Health & Science University

From First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. on MIT Technology Review:

The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology Review has learned. The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the gene-editing technique CRISPR
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To date, three previous reports of editing human embryos were all published by scientists in China.

Now Mitalipov is believed to have broken new ground both in the number of embryos experimented upon and by demonstrating that it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes that cause inherited diseases.

What an incredible moment in history to witness.