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CRISPR babies and other ethical missteps in science threaten China's global standing

  • Written by Caroline Wagner, Milton & Roslyn Wolf Chair in International Affairs, The Ohio State University
China's military may bear the brunt of hits to the country's scientific reputation.Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP

“What happened this time was an ethics disaster for the world,” according to Wang Yuedan, a professor of immunology at Peking University, as quoted in The New York Times. He was talking about the recent claim by...

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