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In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos. Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences.

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What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?

In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos—as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention.

CRISPR People

The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

Author Henry T. Greely

Narrated by Stephen Bowlby

Publication date Jun 22, 2021

Running time 10 hrs 6 min

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