BendiNewsTest: UK scientists have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos

A team of scientist in the UK have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos in order to study the genes which affect the earliest stages of human development. This work would be the first of its kind in the UK and follows swiftly on the heels of a controversial announcement by Chinese scientists that they had altered the DNA of human embryos. A stem cell scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, Kathy Niakan has applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the UK government’s fertility regulator, to perform “genome editing” on human embryos.

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