The Next Course of Action
WWCD? If I can imagine a world where I am the CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics, I would suggest the company take more attempts at getting the general public involved. Many scientists and officials have been commenting on the situation but it was hard to find data on average everyday people and what they think about the advances being made in detail. CT has followed many precautions in their own practice to make sure they don’t cause more harm than help, but there is only so much they can do on a national or even global scale as their research gets into more hands than they can control. There are many courses of action that CT can take in order to get the general public more involved and educated on this topic, whether that be through social media influence or more interviews being conducted on patient success stories. A great example of this is a CNN interview of a 15 year old boy who underwent CRISPR gene editing just 2 years ago named Johnny Lubin. The interview was conducted in Dec