I had once a political home and now I have none; this sentence is a summary but it is also a profound truth. For I once did have a political home, one I genuinely believed I belonged to and one which I believed in, to the extent that I campaigned for them. My experience is […]
In November, Chinese scientist He Jiankui prompted global condemnation after claiming he had used of the latest CRISPR-Cas9 technique to permanently alter a set of twin girls’ DNA. Clouded in confusion and controversy, Elisabeth Aiton examines how the events unfolded and their signficance to gene editing.