US FDA's Authority Over CRISPR Is Adequate, NASEM Finds, But Off-Label Challenge May Emerge
Executive Summary
National Academies’ report on the fast-advancing genome-editing technologies points out that ways to improve musculature in dystrophy patients will almost certainly raise issues about treatment use in narrow population versus enhancement use in broader population. In most cases, however, specificity of genome-edited products will help limit use of the new therapies to targeted populations.
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