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Professor Matthew Cobb investigates some of the implications of the groundbreaking CRISPR genome-editing technology in this BBC Radio 4 documentary...
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Should we be using CRISPR/Cas9 to experiment on human embryos?
by BioNews
This video documents a debate about genome editing, produced by the Progress Educational Trust as part of the Festival of Genomics...
Reply to Mertes, Repping and de Wert 'Stating the obvious: discarding embryos does not increase your chance of having a baby'
It is clear from the reply of Mertes et al in BioNews 835 to the COGEN Consensus Statement on preimplanation genetic screening that some controversy still remains regarding the benefits of PGS...