Yeah. Let's just send in a lawn mower to plow through people's DNA. It could lead to CANCER too..
CRISPR HAS A PROBLEM: IT MANGLES DNA IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO TOUCH
SCIENTISTS FOUND PREVIOUSLY-OVERLOOKED ALTERATIONS IN HUMAN EMBRYOS.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/crispr-problem-mangles-dna-wasnt-supposed-touch
"studies assessing gene correction in early human embryos report low efficiency of mutation repair, high rates of mosaicism, and the possibility of unintended editing outcomes that may have pathologic consequences."
The latest study showing these errant on-site edits comes from scientists at the Francis Crick Institute (FCI). They looked back at previous CRISPR studies — including their own — and found that an alarming 16 percent contained unintended gene edits, according to the research they published in the journal PNAS on Friday.
In the new research, scientists looked at previous studies on gene-edited human embryos donated by people who were undergoing fertility treatments and didn’t need them. Most alarming is the fact that these CRISPR Cas9-induced DNA edits totally flew under the radar at the time.
“Conventional tests used to check the accuracy of CRISPR-Cas9 can miss the types of unintended on-target mutations we identified in this study,”
That means that studies previously considered to be successful demonstrations of CRISPR Cas9’s precision may have actually been riddled with potentially dangerous errors that, in severe cases, could even lead to cancer — so scientists need to be certain their gene-editing work is foolproof before ever moving it into a clinical setting.
June 1, 2021
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2004832117