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CRISPR-baby scientist fails to satisfy critics

He Jiankui gives talk about controversial claim of genome editing babies, but ethical questions remain.
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He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who claims he helped to produce the first people born with edited genomes — twin baby girls — appeared today at a gene-editing summit in Hong Kong to explain his experiment. He delivered his talk amid threats of legal action and mounting questions, from the scientific community and beyond, about the ethics of his work.

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Nature 564, 13-14 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07573-w

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  • Correction 30 November 2018: The numbers of embryos that He used in his experiments have been changed since the article was first published, following clarification by Jiankui He's spokesperson.

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