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Chinese scientist who created 2 gene-edited babies fired by university

Chinese authorities appear to have confirmed a scientist's unpublished claim that he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies? and that a second pregnancy is underway. Now that scientist, He Jiankui, has been fired by the university where he was contracted to work and could be punished for any violations of law.
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