Obama Advisers Say CRISPR Is a Bioterror Threat

Obama Advisers Say CRISPR Is a Bioterror Threat
AP Photo/National Human Genome Research Institute, Maggie Bartle

Scientific advisers to President Obama warn that the U.S. urgently needs a new biodefense strategy and should regularly brief President-elect Donald Trump on the dangers posed by new technologies like CRISPR, gene therapy, and synthetic DNA, which they say could be coöpted by terrorists.

 



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