Unnatural selection
Feb 04, 2022
3 minutes
By Tim Adams
dam Rutherford begins this sharp and timely study of the science that dare not speak its name with an account of the Hong Kong professor who, in 2018, attempted to genetically modify the embryos of twin daughters, removing them from a woman’s womb and then reimplanting them. “China’s Frankenstein”, He Jiankui, had planned to give the children genetic immunity from HIV/Aids, a disease from which their father suffered. Though his efforts failed – the girls were born without that immunity – and he was jailed for three years and fined 3m yuan
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