Casting the Tablets: #crispr
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And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.Exodus 32:19Just a few months ago now, twin girls were born in Shenzhen, China. There birth is the stuff of international news, over forty eight thousand children are born in the country everyday — but something else about LuLu and Nana is. LuLu and Nana’s CCR5 gene was disabled by a technique known as CRISPR/Cas9.The girls will likely never be able contract to HIV.He Jiankui, the lead researcher, has been ‘disappeared’ into state custody for months (and now may even face the death penalty). Public reaction has been no more kind — casting him as a reckless and vain terroristic actor. However, if (...)