Editing Embryo

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  Are We Creating 'Superhumans'? US Startup Offers IQ Screening For Embryos

  A US startup, Heliospect Genomics, is offering wealthy couples the option to test embryos for IQ amid growing ethical debates over genetic modification.

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  Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Is Back In Lab After Jail Time

  Mr He has resumed research on human embryo genome editing, despite the controversy over the ethics of artificially rewriting genes.

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  Controversial Chinese Scientist He Jiankui Back With New Gene-Editing Proposal

  He Jiankui said that this experiment would involve abnormal fertilised egg cells that are typically considered unsuitable for implantation in women.

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  First-Ever 'Synthetic Embryo' Developed Entirely Using Stem Cells From Mice

  Stem cells can be used to create a "synthetic embryo" without using a sperm, eggs, or a womb, according to scientists. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science were able to create an artificial embryo using only stem celll from mice. These synthetic embryos grew normally until day 8.5 when the early organ progenitors are formed such as hear...

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  Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilised Egg in Rare Discovery

  Paleontologists have found a never-seen-before fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg. The fossil showed the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a new study.

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  Bioscience Firm Colossal Says It Will Bring Back Woolly Mammoths, Other Species From Extinction Using CRISPR

  A new bioscience company called Colossal is planning to bring back species, such as the woolly mammoth, back from extinction using CRISPR gene-editing technology.

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  First Gene-Edited Livestock Created That Can Serve as 'Super Surrogates'

  Scientists have created first gene-edited livestock that can serve as viable "surrogate sires" – males that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals – an advance that they say could improve food production for a growing global population.

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  World 'Not Yet Ready' for Embryo Gene-Editing, Say Experts

  Techniques to genetically-edit human embryos should not be used until they are proved to be reliable and safe, an international commission said Thursday, in the wake of a scandal over gene-modified babies in China two years ago.

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  Gene-Edited Twins May Be First Humans With "Accidentally" Enhanced Brains

  Chinese twins Lulu and Nana had their genes altered before birth with a gene-editing tool. The Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had claimed to have edited the DNA of their embryos in order to make them immune to acquiring HIV that causes AIDS.

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  "Rogue, Crazy": Alarm Over China Scientist's Claim Of Gene-Edited Babies

  A Chinese scientist triggered alarm, shock and confusion across the scientific community Monday with the claim that he had edited the DNA of human embryos to create twin baby girls, Lulu and Nana, who he said had been born "crying into the world as healthy as any other babies" a few weeks ago.

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  Modification Of Genes In Human Embryos

  Scientists are very close to snipping inherited genetic diseases out of human offspring using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR. For the first time, scientists said, they corrected a gene mutation linked to inherited heart conditions in human embryos using the approach.

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  First Human Embryo Editing Experiment In US 'Corrects' Gene For Heart Condition

  The work is particularly sensitive because it involves changes to the germ line, genes that could be passed on to future generations.

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  'Gene-Edited' Cells Must Not be Used for Pregnancy: Scientists

  Human cells or embryos that undergo a process of gene-editing must not be used to establish a pregnancy, an international scientific panel said on Thursday, urging strict limits on the controversial research.

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  UK Researchers Seek Permission to Use Human Embryo Genome Editing

  Genome editing techniques on human embryos are still seen as "forbidden fruit" in many countries.

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  Chinese 'Edit' Human Embryos, Scientists Urge Moratorium on Research

  Global scientists on Thursday renewed calls to halt controversial research to genetically edit human embryos after a Chinese team published details of a stunted but breakthrough attempt in this new frontier in science.