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Obstetrics and gynecology · Jul 2019
EditorialGenetically Modified Babies and a First Application of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR-Cas9).
- Bruce I Rose and Samuel Brown.
- Brown Fertility and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida.
- Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Jul 1; 134 (1): 157-162.
AbstractThe world's first babies with CRISPR-Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-edited genes were born on November 25, 2018. Dr. Jiankui He of Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen performed this gene editing. Dr. He's objectives and an assessment of how well they were achieved are discussed in the context of existing research in this area.
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