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Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes — mothers' roles shouldn't be erased

  • Written by Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

A baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with a bar code, another with a glowing gold brain: these are some of the images illustrating stories about the gene-edited twin girls born last...

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