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The CRISPR-baby scandal: what’s next for human gene-editing

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In the three months since He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls with edited genomes, the questions facing the scientific community have grown knottier.

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Nature 566, 440-442 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00673-1

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  • Clarification 11 March 2019: Since the story was first published, a comment has been added from Michael Deem’s lawyer saying that Deem was not a senior author on the human-gene-editing paper describing He’s experiments.

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