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Originally Posted by hal
I wonder what the implications will be when the first "oops" occurs and the first genetic baby gets the bad news that the CRISPR used on it edits other gene sequences that it wasn't supposed to.
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If she lived to an age she could be told, the error is almost certainly trivial. The first lawsuits over errors are going to be from parents who either lose the pregnancy from it, or end up with child that has the genetic disease they paid to have cured, not anybody the engineering was performed on.