Designer Babies - The Problem With China's CRISPR Experiment

2019-02-22

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References:

1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394183/pdf/nihms677725.pdf (check)

2. https://www.nature.com/news/don-t-edit-the-human-germ-line-1.17111

3.https://jb.asm.org/content/200/7/e00580-17

4.Mojica FJM, Díez-Villaseñor C, García-Martínez J, Soria E2005. Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements. J Mol Evol 60:174–182. doi:10.1007/s00239-004-0046-

5.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23360965?dopt=Abstract

6.https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-biophys-062215-010822

7.https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396/events/8464254/videos/184103056

(data not currently published, all information taken from He Jiankui’s November 2018 talk on his work)

8.https://twitter.com/RyderLab/status/1068128997656207361

9.http://time.com/5469111/he-jiankui-scientist-missing-gene-edited-babies/

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