Babies born with edited DNA stun genetics world
by Alice Park
Dec 10, 2018
2 minutes
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IN A SLICK VIDEO RELEASED ON Nov. 25, Chinese scientist He Jiankui dropped a scientific doozy on the world. He claimed, and further explained in an interview with a journalist, that his work had produced the world’s first human babies whose genomes had been edited using the technique called CRISPR. The twin girls, born a few weeks ago, harbor genetic changes that are supposed to make them resistant to
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