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CRISPR is a powerful technique for editing DNA

‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’

29 November 2018

He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there

The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes’ true place

18 July 2018

Inheritance is about so much more than the handing on of a genetic baton down the centuries, argues a nuanced new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh

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‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’

The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes’ true place

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