China Creating Gene-Edited Babies

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: November 26, 2018 11:23:50 JST
> To: Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: China Creating Gene-Edited Babies
>
> Rewriting Life
> EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies
> A daring effort is underway to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene-editing.
> MIT https://www.TechnologyReview.com/s/612458/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/
> EXCERPT:
> When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and 
> pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present.
> It was the invention of a powerful gene editing tool, CRISPR, which is cheap and easy to deploy, that made the birth 
> of humans genetically modified in an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) center a theoretical possibility.
>
> Now, it appears it may already be happening.
>
> According to Chinese medical documents posted online this month (here and here), a team at the Southern University of 
> Science and Technology, in Shenzhen, has been recruiting couples in an effort to create the first gene-edited babies. 
> They planned to eliminate a gene called CCR5 in order to render the offspring resistant to HIV, smallpox, and cholera.
>
> The clinical trial documents describe a study to employ CRISPR to modify human embryos, then to transfer them into 
> the uterus of mothers and deliver healthy children...
>
> [...]
>
> -- 
> Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com
> living as The Truth is True
> http://geoff.livejournal.com  



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