DNA of human embryos edited for first time in US – report

‘A team of researchers in Oregon have become the first to attempt to create genetically modified human embryos in the United States. The team reportedly demonstrated they could eliminate diseases in offspring with CRISPR.
Led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a team of scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University used the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology to alter human DNA in single-cell embryos, according to a report published Wednesday on the MIT Technology Review.
“So far as I know, this will be the first study reported in the US,” Jun Wu, a collaborator at the Salk Institute, told the MIT Technology Review.
The report claims that Mitalipov broke 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.”’
Read more: DNA of human embryos edited for first time in US – report