The Race to Make Designer Babies
Chinese scientist He Jiankui speaks at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty)
Meet ‘Chinese Frankenstein’—and his former bride. The couple are in open competition to become pioneers of gene editing in the United States.
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