A gene that cured a man of HIV a decade ago has been successfully added to developing monkey embryos in an effort to study more […]
Stanford probes faculty ties to China gene-edited baby work
Stanford University has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make […]
China halts work by team on gene-edited babies
China’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a […]
Chinese researcher claims second pregnancy with gene-edited baby is underway
He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) A Chinese scientist […]
Q&A on scientist’s bombshell claim of gene-edited babies
Designer babies might be here sooner than anyone reckoned. A Chinese researcher who says he created gene-edited babies crossed what most scientists consider a forbidden […]