Great quote from Doudna in the article I linked elsewhere:<p>“We have seen it in movies before: When a new technology comes along, of any type, people tend to get very, very excited about it and it stimulates lots of thinking and ideas. But the danger is that there is a race to do something that the field isn’t really ready for, or that causes either perceived or real danger to the community in some way, or something unethical,” she said. “That creates a backlash that can really set a field back.”<p>“Gene therapy is a great example of that,” she added. “There was a race into the clinic, with lots of excitement, and then when patients died there was a backlash that destroyed the field for more than a decade. We would really love to avoid that here.”