China confirms birth of gene-edited babies, blames scientist He Jiankui for breaking rules

What I meant was, if you threw the kit at someone and said "Create a way to change eye color", they would have an impossible time. It's not going to be useful for creating things.

However, in the near future, if you said to someone "Here are some instructions on how to change your eye color. You can buy the required virus here, the protein you'll be editing in here, and the walkthrough listed here". That will be easy for someone to do. You obviously won't be able to test the viability, and you won't know if the source is to be trusted. I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm saying its possible.

That's all we're talking about, the possibility of it, not how accurate you'll be, if it's morally right to do so, if your pastor agrees, what Jesus thinks, just if it's possible.

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