China's win-at-all-costs approach suggests it will follow its own dangerous path in biomedicine
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
The world was shocked by Chinese scientist He Jiankui's recent claim that he'd brought to term twin babies whose genes – inheritable by their own potential descendants – he had modified as embryos. The genetic edit, He said, was meant to make the girls resistant to HIV infection.