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Japan to ban gene-edited embryos aimed at creating "designer babies"


Japan is set to outlaw research and treatments involving the genetic modification of human fertilized eggs using genome editing technology and their subsequent implantation into human or animal uteruses for the purpose of giving birth to a child, according to a bill approved by the Cabinet on Friday.

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