On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world’s first genetically engineered children: twins, created...
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Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.
"These are saliva...
"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
Updated on December 4 at 10:55 a.m. ET.
Before last week, few people had heard the name He Jiankui. But...
Amid the barrage of racist, anti-immigrant, and other attacks launched by President Trump and his administration in recent...
A “profoundly unfortunate,” “ill-considered,” “epic scientific misadventure” that “flout[ed] international ethical norms” and was “largely carried out in secret” with...
In the wild uproar around an experiment in China that claimed to have created twin girls whose genes were altered...
Jiankui He stunned the world this week when a report revealed he had edited genes in human embryos aiming to...
BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it had suspended the work of a scientist who claims to have created...
This is the experiment that was not supposed to happen.
A Chinese scientist claimed this week that he had produced...