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Letter: For the record

Published 12 October 2016

• Attempts in the 1990s to create babies using DNA from three people led to two foetuses with genetic disorders (1 October, p 8).

• The Harvard neuroscientist studying children living in Romanian orphanages is Charles Nelson (1 October, p 5). Apologies.

• Getting warmer: it is the increase in global temperature above baseline that is expected to soar way past 2 °C (1 October, p 6).

Issue no. 3095 published 15 October 2016

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