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China's win-at-all-costs approach suggests it will follow its own dangerous path in biomedicine

  • Written by Hallam Stevens, Associate Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University
Megacity Shenzhen, as seen from Hong Kong, is a center for Chinese finance and tech.AP Photo/Kin Cheung

The world was shocked by Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s recent claim that he’d brought to term twin babies whose genes – inheritable by their own potential descendants – he had modified as embryos. The genetic edit, He...

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