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In 2018, two girls were born in China who were the first ever genetically modified humans.
They were followed a little bit after by a third girl who'd also been gene-edited.
They'd all been grown from embryos gene-edited with the intent to give them immunity to HIV.
But the process didn't work out as planned.
And the scientist who made those embryos, Hei Zhangqu, he was jailed for three years, he was fined,
and it's illegal to modify human embryos in most of the world.
But there is a lot of funding.
Nevertheless, a lot of funding flowing into this area.
This week we're going to report on research that has a direct bearing
on this because it gets rid of some of those problems that occurred in 2018 with those three girls.
So the question is, are we getting closer to be able to safely gene-edit babies, to make designer babies so-called?
And when might that happen, if so?
From New Scientist, this is the world, the universe and us.
I'm Dr. Rowan Hooper.