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. 2020 Mar;22(3):487-489.
doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0696-6. Epub 2019 Nov 21.

The case for banning heritable genome editing

Jeffrey R Botkin  1
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The case for banning heritable genome editing

Jeffrey R Botkin. Genet Med. 2020 Mar.
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