China 2015 – What If: Anyone Can Edit the Human Genome?

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New genome-modifying methods promise to revolutionize healthcare, whereas some researchers hope to take the know-how even additional. What if genetic modification of human embryos turns into low cost, straightforward and ubiquitous?

Join an in-depth dialogue that explores the attainable, believable, and possible impacts of genetically modifying human embryos.

• Katrine Bosley, Chief Executive Officer, Editas Medicine, USA
• Thomas Chalberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Avalanche Biotechnologies, USA
• Nita A. Farahany, Professor, Law and Philosophy, Duke University, USA
• Rui-Ping Xiao, Editor, The New England Journal of Medicine, USA

Moderated by
• Joe Palca, Science Correspondent, NPR, USA

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