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He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, comments about his claim to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung).

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, comments about his claim to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung).

World’s First Gene-Edited Babies Could Set Genetic Science Backward, Experts Worry

Ann Mongoven, associate director of Healthcare Ethics, quoted in The Huffington Post.

"There’s a real question if whether the fear of AIDS and AIDS stigma became a way of recruiting parents into this research."

Ann Mongoven quoted in The Huffington Post (AP Photo/Kin Cheung).

Nov 27, 2018
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