The ‘Monstrous’ Immorality of Creating Genetically Engineered Babies

A scientist claims he used CRISPR to create gene-edited twins

Arthur Caplan
OneZero
Published in
3 min readNov 28, 2018

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He Jiankui at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Nov. 28. Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty

On November 25, He Jiankui, a scientist at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China announced, via YouTube, that he had created the world’s first genetically engineered babies. He said twin girls, Lulu and Nana, had been…

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