CRISPR Does Germ Line Gene Replacement in Monkeys
April 29, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
So far, this story hasn’t ruffled the formerly passionate controversy over germ line genetic engineering. Either it slipped beneath the opponents’ radar screen, or the issue isn’t as controversial as it was when the technology to make it happen didn’t exist. But now, researchers at Nanjing University have used the gene editing process of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) to alter the genome of a Macaque monkey and passed that inheritance to its offspring. MORE
Image Credit: Niu et al. and Cell and QMed.com