<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Stephen Van Sickle </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:sjv2006@gmail.com" target="_blank">sjv2006@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I don't believe that was germ-line engineering.  They only modified immune cells.  But still exciting progress.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">Very exciting indeed if it or some other CRISPER related technology led to a cure ​for lung cancer. And human germ-line editing has already been done:</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/second-chinese-team-reports-gene-editing-in-human-embryos-1.19718">http://www.nature.com/news/second-chinese-team-reports-gene-editing-in-human-embryos-1.19718</a> </div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​John K Clark​</font></div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>