November 29, 2018
He Jiankui, left, and Zhou Xiaoqin work a computer at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province in October. Chinese scientist He claims he helped make world’s first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. He revealed it Monday in Hong Kong to one of the organisers of an international conference on gene editing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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