Editing genes shouldn't be too scary -- unless they are the ones that get passed to future generations
- Written by Eleanor Feingold, Professor of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Gene editing a fertilized human embryo. Lightspring/Shutterstock.com
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...