The scientific community is largely aghast at the claim that a woman in China gave birth to the world’s first genetically edited babies earlier this month, born from embryos modified to make the twins resistant to HIV infection.
The announcement was made on Monday by Chinese scientist He Jiankui on the eve of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in Hong Kong, where the world’s leading thinkers in the field have converged to discuss the technology and its...
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