Gene-editing Quote by Jennifer A. Doudna

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“American spy agencies seemed rattled by the experiments too. I was shocked when the next Worldwide Threat Assessment — the annual report presented by…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in…

— Helen Caldicott

“Tinkering with our genes won’t necessarily kill us. But we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.

— Scott Gottlieb

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional…

— Colin Blakemore

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout…

— George M. Church

CRISPR-enabled 'gene drives' enable us to make changes to the germ-line of organisms permanent such that changes spread through the entire wild population, including…

— Dominic Cummings

“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,…

— Nick Bostrom

“Sounds good, Roberta admitted, joining in a round of polite applause. Her initial gut response to this whole gene-tampering business had been one of…

— Greg Cox

We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future…

— John Dupre