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UK may allow gene editing of crops and livestock following Brexit

8 January 2021

The UK government is exploring the use of gene editing to modify food crops because the technique can improve the nutrition of crops through tiny DNA changes
Jiankui He (right) and another researcher

Could CRISPR babies experiment have been made public earlier?

19 December 2019

He Jiankui submitted his work to the journal Nature before it was made public, raising questions of whether journals have a responsibility to raise ethical issues

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