Scientists Went Rogue And Genetically Engineered Two Human Babies Or At Least Claimed To
The science Besides He, the most important players in this story may be twin baby girls named Nana and Lulu. As far as we know the twins were edited as embryos using CRISPR-cas9, a gene editing tool. The stated purpose of the edit was to disable CCR5, a gene involved in allowing HIV to invade cells, which is how a virus infects a host. The twins don’t appear in a promotional video uploaded to Youtube by The He Lab, but the scientist himself does....