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In depth: He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s two first genome-edited babies, has defended his controversial work at the second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, after its announcement provoked a huge backlash from researchers both in China and around the world.
Full story: Researcher defends human gene editing work