Editing genes shouldn’t be too scary – unless they are the ones that get passed to future generations

Gene editing is one of the scarier things in the science news, but not all gene editing is the same. It matters whether researchers edit “somatic” cells or “germline” cells. Germline cells are the ones that propogate into an entire organism – either cells that make sperm and eggs (known as germ cell...

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