Monkeys born with edited genes
DNA-snipping technique inspired by bacteria shows therapeutic promise
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EMBRYO EDIT Two female cynomolgus monkeys named Mingming and Ningning are the first primates to have their genes precisely edited by scientists.
Y. Niu et al/Cell 2014