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A team of scientist in the United Kingdom have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos in order to study the genes which affect the earliest stages of human development.

Just months after Chinese scientists caused an worldwide furore by saying they had genetically modified human embryos, Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist from London’s Francis Crick Institute, has asked the British government’s fertility regulator for a licence to...

Earlier this year, Chinese scientists became the first in the world to modify human embryos.