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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos

In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published 1 in the online journal Protein & Cell and confirm widespread rumours that such experiments had been conducted-rumours that sparked a high-profile debate In the paper, researchers led by Junjiu Huang, a gene-function researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, tried to head off such concerns by using 'non-viable' embryos, which cannot result in a live birth, that were obtained from local fertility clinics.
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