China appears set to be the Peenemunde of genetics. Dark roots now being planted for stiff you’ll hail as great human acts in about 30 years.
(Peenemunde was the Nazi lab where modern rocketry was born)
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At a facility in China, scientists are CRISPRing brain disorders into monkeys, in order to understand them better. @sarahzhang visited the facility and wrote a fantastic feature about the ethics and promise of this research & the rise of science in China: theatlantic.com/science/archiv




