China halts research team's work on gene-edited babies

Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 08:20 in Health & Medicine

China's government orders a halt to work by a medical team that claims it helped make the world's first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared it's still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations.

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