Regulators and medical experts have expressed outrage at a Chinese scientist’s claims that he used Crispr technology to create the world’s first genetically edited babies, a pair of twin girls.
Crispr works by snipping strands of DNA to disable or change faulty genes.
In a YouTube video posted on Sunday, He Jiankui, of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, said the girls — referred to as Lulu and Nana “to protect their privacy” — were born a few weeks ago “as healthy as any other babies”.
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