This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
Editing human embryos is restricted in much of the world—and making an edited baby is fully illegal in most countries surveyed by legal scholars. But advancing technology could render the embryo issue moot.
New ways of adding CRISPR, the revolutionary gene editing tool...