Russ­ian sci­en­tist plans to one-up Jiankui He in cre­at­ing his own CRISPR ba­bies — Na­ture

If De­nis Re­brikov has his way, the world could be ex­pect­ing more CRISPR ba­bies soon.

The Russ­ian sci­en­tist has told Na­ture he is con­sid­er­ing fol­low­ing Jiankui He’s ex­am­ple in knock­ing out the CCR5 gene in em­bryos and im­plant­i­ng them in­to women — ex­cept do­ing it in a bet­ter way. It marks the first de­c­la­ra­tion of in­ter­est in con­tin­u­ing the work when re­searchers around the world are call­ing for sus­pen­sion of hu­man germline edit­ing and stricter stan­dards, fol­low­ing a glob­al back­lash against He’s claims that he fa­cil­i­tat­ed the birth of twin girls who had been CRISPR-ed as em­bryos.

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