Editorial: The (somewhat obvious) ethical problems with creating gene-edited babies
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 09:50
in Health & Medicine
It has long been a scientific dream: to inoculate people against terrible diseases before they're born. Now a team of doctors based in China has dangled that possibility in front of us by claiming it has edited the DNA of two human embryos during in vitro fertilization. The goal of the project was to protect the two (who are now twin baby girls) from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.