The world’s first genome-editing medicine has been approved; bioethical inquiry should continue
On BioEdge, Dr Patrick Foong and I quickly run through the bioethical perturbations that have come with the relatively rapid approval of Casgevy, the first-ever approved genome-editing therapy that utilises CRISPR/Cas 9. In some ways, it could be said that Casgevy is the first-ever approved genome therapy ‘full-stop’, because other categories of gene therapy have […]