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Researchers split on breakthrough gene-edited human babies

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(Worthy News) – The announcement that a Chinese researcher had successfully delivered the first genetically edited human babies was met with both celebration and condemnation in a contentious debate over the ethics of modifying DNA to influence the human gene pool.

“I think this is justifiable,” George Church, a foremost expert on genetics at Harvard University and the first to outline genome sequencing, told The Associated Press.

Mr. Church was responding to the revelation that He Jiankui, a researcher from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, successfully modified the DNA of twin girls in embryo to prevent them from contracting HIV using CRISPR-Cas9. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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