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Alice Carnevali

Embryo gene editing is getting more precise, but how safe and ethical is the practice? | Euronews Tech Talks

In the summer of 2026, two studies revived the debate on embryo gene editing, a technique that consists of manipulating the DNA of a human embryo for reasons ranging from better understanding human development to preventing children from developing certain diseases.

One study was led by Kathy Niakan at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and the other by Dieter Egli at Columbia University in the United States.

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