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Startup aims to prove embryo gene-editing is safe for healthy babies
Original: This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies
A startup is working to demonstrate that gene-editing human embryos can be done safely, with the goal of producing healthy babies. The effort touches one of medicine's most contested frontiers: editing embryos to prevent genetic disease. Critics have long warned about safety risks and ethical concerns around heritable genetic modification, so any move toward clinical proof is likely to reignite debate among scientists, regulators and bioethicists.
Why now: Heritable human gene-editing remains highly controversial, and claims of pursuing safe embryo editing raise urgent safety and ethics questions.
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