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First Patient To Receive Gene Editing Treatment For Sickle Cell Doing Well In 2020

Victoria Gray received the CRISPR treatment, which can modify a person's cells, one year ago. Today, her life is markedly improved.
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Where Is He Jiankui? Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Reportedly Missing

The scientist has not been seen for several days, according to local news outlets. But officials from He's former university say he has not been detained.
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The Gene-Edited Babies And CRISPR-Cas9 Controversy, Explained

CRISPR-Cas9 has the ability to change everything about our world. Here’s why it's awesome and why it's scary.
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World's First Gene-Edited Babies Could Set Genetic Science Backward, Experts Fear

“There’s a real question if whether the fear of AIDS and AIDS stigma became a way of recruiting parents into this research."
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Scientists in China Claim First Gene-Edited Babies

He Jiankui of Shenzhen used a powerful new tool to alter the DNA of twin girls born this month in China.
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press

Will Whoever Controls Gene Editing Control Historical Memory?

Which events are memorialized and which disappear from history?
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Scientists Hit Breakthrough In Quest To Transplant Pig Organs Into Humans

These little piggies could soon save millions of lives.
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Human Gene Editing Is Leaving Ethics Dangerously Far Behind

Unless we pay much more attention to ethical and social choices, we risk turning the promise of gene editing into disaster.
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A Gene Technology Can 'Edit' A Human Embryo -- But That's Not All It Can Do

One day, it might be able to target fatal genetic diseases in children and adults.
By Andy Kopsa, On Assignment For HuffPost

First Editing Of Human Embryos Carried Out In United States

Results of the peer-reviewed study are expected to be published soon in a scientific journal.
By Reuters