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Ethical concerns temper optimism about gene-editing for human diseases

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Rob Stein

March 08, 2023

Researchers meeting in London this week concluded that techniques that have made it easier to manipulate DNA still produce too many mistakes for scientists to be confident any children born from edited embryos (such as these, photographed in 2018) would be healthy. (AP)

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