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We need rules before we let the genome-editing genie out of the bottle

Changing human DNA brings hope for treating diseases but raises concerns such as equitable access

The writer is a science commentator

Every emerging technology has its dreamers and schemers. That is certainly true of human genome editing, the focus of a high-profile global summit held this week at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Among the dreamers is Harvard University biochemist David Liu, whose talk on Monday featured news of Alyssa, a British teenager now in remission from leukaemia after receiving donated T-cells edited using a technique developed in his lab.

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