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WHO To Create Registry for Genetic Research

Agence France-Presse

   GENEVA - The WHO announced Thursday it will create a global registry to
   track research into human genetic manipulation, after a call to halt
   all work on germline genome editing, used in China last year to
   genetically modify twin baby girls.

   "New genome editing technologies hold great promise and hope for those
   who suffer from diseases we once thought untreatable," the World Health
   Organization's Director General for told the body's genome editing
   oversight committee meeting in Geneva.

   "But some uses of these technologies also pose unique and unprecedented
   challenges -- ethical, social, regulatory and technical," he added.

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