MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
A government-funded group that’s leading efforts to set standards for gene editing has pulled a video it posted in the wake of concern about how it portrayed the ethically dicey science and its possible use to make designer babies.
The National Academy of Sciences posted the video earlier this week along with a tweet it later removed.
The tweet read: "Dream of being stronger? Or smarter? Do you dream of having a top student or star athlete? Or a child free of inheritable #diseases? Can human #GeneEditing eventually make this and more possible? #TheScienceBehindIt Take the quiz!” It included emojis of a brain, bulging muscles, a professor and an athlete.
“I am disappointed by this,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin, Madison
