Genome Editing: Promoting Responsible Research

For more than 40 years, scientists have been developing tools and technologies for genome modification; however, initial progress was slow and few outside of the molecular biology community took an interest in the field. Everything has dramatically changed with the recent appearance of the so-called precision approaches, and especially with the ‘CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) revolution’. With great powers come...