The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 02, 2018, 03:26:39 pm
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China Stops Work on Gene-Edited Babies
Nov. 29, 2018 -- The work of a research team that claimed to have produced the world's first gene-edited babies is illegal and has been halted, the Chinese government said Thursday.
An investigation has been ordered into the research that led to the birth of twin girls earlier this month, Chinese Vice Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping told state broadcaster CCTV, the Associated Press reported.
Last week, He Jiankui claimed to have altered the DNA of the twins to try to make them resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS virus.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20181129/china-stops-work-on-gene-edited-babies (https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20181129/china-stops-work-on-gene-edited-babies)