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 ## Gene experimentation
 
-Germ line editing is unconditionally prohibited. Pre-sui-juris somatic editing can be done for curative and palliative reasons only.
+Germ line editing is unconditionally prohibited; somatic cell editing is allowed. Pre-sui-juris somatic cell line editing can be done for curative and palliative reasons only.
 
 > [On plants and so on, strict principles of what constitutes trespass.]