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Letter: For the record {16 July 2022}

Published 13 July 2022

Heritable genome editing is banned in many countries, but not globally (2 July, p 18).

In our “The longevity diet” box in our piece on age-defying diets (2 July, p 38), we shouldn’t have mentioned complete fasting. Please don’t attempt any form of fasting without medical supervision.

Issue no. 3395 published 16 July 2022

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