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‘There is no way to stop this’: Canadian biotech entrepreneur wants to genetically modify babies
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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A Chinese couple paid a guy to gene edit their embryos so the babies were resistant to HIV.
Did the editing cause other off target effects? who knows.
For anyone reading this guy's comment, this really did happen.
Of course it did. The person who did it was jailed in China. It is illegal to genome edit with federal funding in the US, but it is legal in private companies, because you can do anything for profit in the US.