gene-editing
China draws up tighter rules on human gene and embryo trials
Chinese authorities launched an investigation into He’s work and said they had halted the kind of research he was undertaking.
Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil
The Minnesota-based company is hoping the announcement will encourage the food industry’s interest in the oil.
CRISPR twins may be the first humans with ‘accidentally’ enhanced brains
CRISPR remains a controversial use of science and technology regarded by the critics as ‘irresponsible.’
Edit baby genes for health, not smarts
People are torn between the medical promise of a technology powerful enough to alter human heredity.
Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment?
The young scientist, He Jiankui, saw the power of this tool, called CRISPR, to transform genes.
First ever genetically modified human embryos created in US
Process changed DNA of large number of one-cell embryos with the controversial gene-editing technique CRISPR.