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BLOOMBERG | Scientists Don't Fear a New Crispr Snag

Published: 23 January 2018

I talked this over with 91社区 medical ethicist Jonathan Kimmelman, who specializes in the risks of medical experiments and has written a book about them centered on the Jesse Gelsinger case. Of course, he says, money isn鈥檛 the only thing that might prevent medical researchers from being perfectly objective -- there鈥檚 the desire to be heroes, to beat rivals, and to help patients. A bigger concern is the fact that whatever is driving scientists, they can have blind spots just like everyone else.


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