Unintended Consequences of Designer Baby Ban

Unintended Consequences of Designer Baby Ban
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By tucking two crucial sentences inside a federal spending bill last year, the U.S. Congress effectively banned the human testing of gene-editing techniques that could produce genetically modified babies. But the provision, which is up for renewal this year, has also flustered proponents of a promising technique that could help mothers avoid passing certain devastating mitochondrial genetic disorders to their children.

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