Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world's first genetically engineered children: twins, created by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because they're inheritable – "editing the germline" – are widely prohibited by law and avoided by scientific consensus. If He really did this, it's a very big step across a very bright line.