Tech Diaries: The controversy around the CRISPR gene-edited Babies

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The Scientist dubbed “China’s Frankenstein” — He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, rocked the Medical World last November at The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong — when he announced that he had genetically modified the DNA of the twin baby girls (whom he named Lulu & Nana), using the CRISPR tool before bringing them into the World. He shocked the audience with another surprise saying that one more Chinese woman was pregnant with a CRISPR baby. And while the rest of the medical community has been busy debating the pros & the cons of genetically modified humans, yet another CRISPR baby is due to be born any moment if it hasn’t already come into the World.

He’s team used CRISPR to damage a single gene called CCR5 to make the twin girls immune to infection by HIV. The Chinese scientist has been criticized in China…