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HONG KONG – A well-known American scientist warns against a brutal reaction to the claim that a Chinese scientist helped create the first baby in the world to have modified genes.
Dr. George Daley, dean of the medical school at Harvard Medical School, said it would be unfortunate that an error in one case would lead scientists and regulators to reject the good that could come from the modification of DNA to treat or prevent diseases.
Daley spoke Wednesday at an international conference in Hong Kong, where Chinese scientist He Jiankui (HEH JEE-ahn-qway) from Shenzhen was also scheduled to speak.
He says he changed the binoculars' DNA when they were designed to try to help them resist a possible infection with the AIDS virus.
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