"via John Timmer, writing at Ars Technica, comes news of the use of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (also known as CRISPR) gene editing efforts targeting the human genome, with (reportedly) live, human births as the result."

"The most complete report we currently have comes from the Associated Press. Its reporters talked to the researcher behind the announcement, He Jiankui of Shenzhen, China, in advance of his public announcement." - John Timmer, reporting at Ars Technica, comes word of CRISPR gene editing