How a Chinese Scientist Broke the Rules to Create the First Gene-Edited Babies – The Wall Street Journal

Two sisters entered the arena in arrive one October evening last 12 months by emergency caesarean piece. Workers at the Chinese sanatorium swaddled them in white, laying them in incubators.

The twins had a secret practically no person at the sanatorium knew. One man who did know became there, waiting—a U.S.-expert researcher, Dr. He Jiankui, who had flown into town to glance them.

The…