China’s CRISPR twins

China’s CRISPR twins may have had their brains enhanced

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China has been working for a while now to find a way to make children immune to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). But some studies are showing that an alteration had been made to the girls DNA removing a gene named CCR5 which when removed from mice made them Not only more intelligent but also seems to help the human brain recover from strokes.