Apr 22, 2015
Scientists in China create genetically modified human embryos: 'A cautionary tale'
Scientists in China create genetically modified human embryos: ‘A cautionary tale’
Rumors have been flying for months that researchers in China and possibly elsewhere were shopping papers around at high-profile journals that reported gene editing and genetic modification of human embryos.
The rumors were right.
Today, one of the Chinese teams of researchers published their paper on genetically modified (GM) human embryos in the journal Protein & Cell.
The paper is open access…
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