Denis Rebrikov also told Nature that he does not plan to implant gene-edited embryos until he gets regulatory approval.
Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women ...
On 10 June 2017, a sunny and hot Saturday in Shenzhen, China, two couples came to the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) to discuss whether they would ...
A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China that led to the birth of the world’s first genome-edited ...
The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year.
A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act ...
Two sisters entered the world prematurely one October night last year by emergency caesarean section. Staff at the Chinese hospital swaddled them in white, laying them in incubators.
The twins ...
Scientist He Jiankui showed the world how human embryo editing is relatively easy to do but incredibly difficult to do well. Going against the consensus in the scientific community ...
Scientists and ethicists from seven nations on Wednesday called for a moratorium on gene-editing experiments designed to alter heritable traits in human babies. It's the latest alarm sounded by ...
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited babies into the world.
"We call for a global moratorium ...
An international group of researchers, including some inventors of the popular gene-editing tool Crispr, called for a world-wide moratorium on editing DNA in human sperm, eggs and embryos to ...
Four months after a Chinese scientist shocked the world with news that he had intentionally altered the DNA of twin girls, top genetics experts and ethicists are calling for ...
Leading scientists are calling for a global moratorium on editing human genes that can be passed down generations, after the Chinese scientist He Jiankui outraged the international research community ...
Leading scientists have called for a global moratorium on the use of powerful DNA editing tools to make genetically modified children.
The move is intended to send a clear signal to maverick ...
More than a dozen top scientists from seven countries are calling for world governments to adopt a moratorium on what scientists call heritable genome editing.
They’re on a mission to ...
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
A year ...
Speaking at a genome summit in Hong Kong, He Jiankui defended his claim that he created the world's first gene-edited babies using CRISPR. The tool's co-inventor, Jennifer Doudna, shares ...
Jennifer Doudna @doudna_lab, the co-inventor of CRISPR says she’s “horrified” and "disgusted" with how her work has been used to create gene-edited babies #CRISPRBabies #GeneEditSummit pic.twitter.com/WULlCT8zzv
— QuickTake by Bloomberg ...
A Chinese researcher’s claim that he successfully modified the genes of human embryos may force the country to make a stark choice about the future of its burgeoning biotechnology ...
Last year, Jennifer Doudna, one of the pioneers of the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR, said, “I’ve mentally prepared myself for the day when I open my inbox or answer my ...
A couple of years ago Jennifer Doudna had a nightmare about a gene-surgery tool called Crispr-Cas9, the revolutionary discovery that made her name. She was asked to explain it ...
