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He Jiankui says two babies have been born as part of his CRISPR experiment

World’s first gene-edited babies announced by a scientist in China

26 November 2018

He Jiankui has announced that a pair of twins that were CRISPR gene-edited as embryos have now been born, but the work hasn't yet been independently verified

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