China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)

Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by foobaw on Thursday July 27, 2017 @12:58PM (#14867146)

Here's a newer article on the results: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/health/chinese-scientists...

The conclusion: technology is not ready for editing genes of human embryos yet.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by gwern on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:05PM (#14867237)

That paper was obsolete when it was done, even more obsolete when it was published, and totally obsolete now when even on the front page of HN, right now (presumably prompting this submission), there is an article about US researchers successfully editing human embryos with few or no off-targets.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by pcnonpc on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:00PM (#14867177)

The interview was mainly about embryo selection, not genetic engineering.

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Re:China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013) by HiroshiSan on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:00PM (#14867182)

What hope do us simpletons have with this technology? Will we be able to edit our DNA to raise our IQ? Learn more efficiently? Better Memory? Etc...

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