The Chinese government has to have strict ethical and moral rules around genetic engineering. It's impossible to do this without doing it in a lab that other people are accessing, that others are in,. He wouldn't have been trained to do that. As a researcher, he may have been able to do the genetic manipulations with CRISPR, but he definitely wasn't performing IVF.
In this episode, Dr Matt and Dr Mike discuss how humans realised that bacteria could fight off viruses using sequences in their DNA called, CRISPR. Today, CRISPR technology is being used to cure cancer and investigate the cause of genetic disease.
For a video of Dr Mike teaching about CRISPR, click HERE!
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