“Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats” or “CRISPR” doesn’t sound very impressive, but don’t be fooled.
While this method has the potential to produce a child who might otherwise suffer from a hereditary disease carried by one parent, applications could go beyond that, says Marcy Darnovsky, executive director for the Centre of Genetics and Society. It sounds like something right out of a science fiction novel — and it is. In Oryx and Crake, Canadian author Margaret Atwood imagined a world where pigs were infused with human DNA, raised for their organs and then discarded. It didn’t end well, as the “pigoons” became dangerous predators who devoured their human creators.
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