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It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
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It looks like we’re one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab

The first CRISPR-edited embryos have been produced in the U.S. In vitro fertilization being performed under a microscope Pixabay In a U.S. first, a team of biologists has edited a human embryo’s DNA. The technique has been used before by scientists in China, but never in the United States, where the ethical debate over editing embryos…


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