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Chinese Researchers Claim to Create the First Gene-Edited Babies

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In this episode, we talk to Motherboard reporter Daniel Oberhaus about how researchers' claim that the DNA of twin girls was altered to protect them against HIV. But the results haven’t been published in a scientific journal and many researchers are questioning the ethical and scientific validity of the claim.



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