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• Biopolitical Times: WHO Asserts Leadership on Human Genome Editing (21st July 2021)
  

• The Independent: Lab tests show risks of using CRISPR gene editing on embryos (30th October 2020)
  

• Nature: 'CRISPR babies' are still too risky, says influential panel (3rd September 2020)
  

• OneZero: Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster (16th June 2020)
  

• Center for Genetics and Society: "Disastrous" Embryo Editing Results Deliver "Restraining Order" for Heritable Genome Editing (16th June 2020)
  

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  The Guardian: First human-monkey chimera raises concern among scientists (3rd August 2013)
  

• Physics-Astronomy.org: Japan Approves Groundbreaking Experiment Bringing Human-Animal Hybrids to Term (30th July 2019)
  

• The Berkeley Daily Planet: A ban, not a moratorium, on human embryo modification (28th June 2019)
  

• The Atlantic: A Mutation That Resists HIV Has Other Harmful Consequences (3rd June 2019)
  

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• NPR: Why Making A 'Designer Baby' Would Be Easier Said Than Done (2nd May 2019)
  

• STAT: Leading scientists, backed by NIH, call for a global moratorium on creating 'CRISPR babies' (13th March 2019)
  

• Nature: Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing (13th March 2019)
  

• The Atlantic: The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day (3rd December 2018)
  

• BBC: 'Gene-edited babies': China halts work of He Jiankui (29th November 2018)
  

• NPR: Science Summit Denounces Gene-Edited Babies Claim, But Rejects Moratorium (29th November 2018)
  

• BBC: 'Gene-edited babies': China halts work of He Jiankui (29th November 2018)
  

• BBC: Chinese scientist He Jiankui defends 'world's first gene-edited babies' (28th November 2018)
  

• ABC: Chinese scientist who claims to have 'edited' twins' genes slammed by peers and medical ethicists (27th November 2018)
  

• BBC: China baby gene editing claim 'dubious' (26th November 2018)
  

• MIT Review: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies (25th November 2018)
  

• AP: First gene-edited babies claimed in China (26th November 2018)
  

• The Guardian: Editing embryo DNA is an exciting landmark, but in reality will benefit few (4th August 2017)
  

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  STAT: U.S. scientists edit genome of human embryo, but cast doubt on possibility of 'designer babies' (2nd August 2017)
  

• The Guardian: Major report prepares ground for genetic modification of human embryos (14th February 2017)
  

• NPR: Unexpected Risks Found In Editing Genes To Prevent Inherited Disorders (1st January 2017)
  

• NPR: Breaking Taboo, Swedish Scientist Seeks To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos (22nd September 2016)
  

• The Telegraph: Humans will be 'irrevocably altered' by genetic editing, warn scientists ahead of summit (30th November 2015)
  

• The Guardian: GM embryos: time for ethics debate, say scientists (1st September 2015)
  

• Biopolitical Times: Geron quits the stem cell industry (16th November 2011)
  

• The Telegraph: Test children's genes before they have sex (2nd June 2011)
  

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