China's CRISPR babies might have wasted our last chance
Yesterday I woke up to this piece of news:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612458/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/
Chinese Scientists are Creating CRISPR Babies.
Hilarity ensued. This guy, Hè Jiànkuí 贺建奎, professor at China's Southern University of Science and Technology, with good, manly posture, was bringing the future to our time.
I was feeling weird already. But then this other bombshell happens.
https://www.apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d
Babies are...