Not exact matches
Other Chinese groups had previously reported
editing human
embryos that could not develop into a baby because they carried extra chromosomes, but this is the first report
involving viable
embryos (SN Online: 4/8/16; SN Online: 4/23/15).
A week later, a network of stem - cell researchers, bioethicists and policy experts called the Hinxton Group, said that after meetings in Manchester, UK, they had concluded that research
involving genome
editing in human
embryos has «tremendous value to basic research».
On Aug. 3, the scientific article in Nature finally gave us some facts about the much - hyped experiments that
involved editing the genomes of human
embryos at the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at Oregon Health and Science University.