May You Be Blessed With A Thousand Sons? CRISPR Might Say OK!

While bereft of progeny myself, I had started to recklessly throw around the lovely Indian blessing of “Sahasra Putravati Bhava” (may you have a thousand sons) on young women that I had any affection for. That is an obsolete Indian blessing many an elder bestows on unsuspecting young women in India. Trust the English to make an unholy and out of proportion curry from this benign and well meaning blessing. They are going to interpret it in their country using CRISPR on livestock and make (the irony of it) millions of only female chicken … and single…