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UK scientists seek permission to edit the genes of human embryos

Reuters: Science - Posted: September 18th, 2015, 8:59am UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have applied for permission to edit the genes of human embryos in a series of experiments aimed at finding out more about the earliest stages of human development.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/49f8043a/sc/32/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=3g1VV3uCrxo:8EPYuDCG6W4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=3g1VV3uCrxo:8EPYuDCG6W4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=3g1VV3uCrxo:8EPYuDCG6W4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=3g1VV3uCrxo:8EPYuDCG6W4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=3g1VV3uCrxo:8EPYuDCG6W4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/3g1VV3uCrxo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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