The man "cut off": scientists shocked by the babies at the DNA

Comments Patient Organizations

Muscular Diseases The Netherlands believe that it is an interesting development that must certainly be continued, but with a very large number of safety and caution protocols. "The step that has been made in China goes ten times too fast."

Alzheimer Nederland also finds it interesting, but indicates that it does not apply to dementia. "To attack dementia, you have to attack multiple genes, which is not possible yet and no one knows what happens to a human when we treat several genes at the same time. "

HIV Vereniging is shocked and finds the experience dangerous. and irresponsible. "There are enough alternatives to HIV treatment, such as sperm centrifugation and good drugs, so it's not necessary." HIV-positive people do not benefit at all from this Chinese experience. "If patients were to report to them on CRISPR-Cas technology, they would indicate these patients to alternatives.

VSOP (for rare and genetic diseases) says that patients are not happy because there are There is still much research being done on CRISPR-Cas technology VSOP is an organization for gene modification, but under certain conditions: "There must be careful frameworks in which this is done. The method is not yet reliable. "