Unconquered Peaks

Let’s face it: as Year 12s, most of our daily existential dread is confined to the UCAS personal statement and EPQ if you are doing it of course, or wondering if the cafeteria will run out of paninis before you get let out of lessons 5 minutes too late. But recently, Columbia University scientists decided to elevate global existential dread by publishing a preprint study that asks a much heavier question: Are we finally ready to safely rewrite the genetic code of human embryos?