Why We Need a Summit on Human Gene Editing

Abstract

In 1981, Matthew Meselson pointed out that the puzzle brought to light by Darwin, of what constitutes heredity, was solved in two tranches. The first lasted from 1900, when Mendel's work of the last half of the nineteenth century came into the consciousness of the scientific community. It lasted until 1950 or so, when the rules of genetic inheritance had been firmly established.

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