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Decisions to Allow or Prevent Germline Editing · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight
Future Today Strategy Group
Tech Trends Report
2023
Claim

Decisions to Allow or Prevent Germline Editing

Published 2023-03

Publishers Forecast vs actual Side by side

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysics researcher who used CRISPR to edit embryonic DNA, performed a trailblazing type of surgery—on genes.

Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2024-258

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

All captured fields

rank: 70
section: Bioengineering
subsection: Bioengineering Trends / Bioengineering Trends in Society
subject: Decisions to Allow or Prevent Germline Editing
page: 54
confidence: high

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https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2023-070

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Hindsight, claim ftsg-tech-trends-2023-070, renamed as of 2026-10-03. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/ftsg-tech-trends-2023-070

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