HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson's The Body
In November 2018 news broke via YouTube that He Jiankui, then a professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China had created the world’s first gene-edited babies from two embryos. The edited gene was CCR5 delta 32 - a gene that conferred protection against HIV. Alongside the public, most…
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