One of Discover Magazine's top ten stories of 2015: Chinese scientists, the only scientists allowed to experiment on human embryos, attempted to squash an inherited, potentially fatal blood disorder by injecting 86 "non-viable" human embryos with the gene editing system called CRISPR. The magazine doesn't say what CRISPR stands for, but it basically seeks out defective genes and replaces them with good ones. Theoretically a baby born that way could not only live to be a 100 years old (or more), but it could have blond hair and blue eyes if the parents so desired. Anyhow, the Chinese scientists have revealed that the gene-editing worked for only 4 of the embroyos and created 82 "unintentional mutations."
CRISPR has been outlawed in the US, but not in other nations. London scientists have applied to the UK's government authority on fertility research for permission to use CRISPR on viable human embryos.
My question is, if they manage to create 4 super babies, while creating 82 mutants, what will they do with the mutants?
