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Normal text size Very large text size When the twin girls were born, one October night in 2018, they carried a secret: a hidden tweak in their DNA even the hospital in China didn’t know about. They were the world’s first genetically engineered humans. The next month, news of their existence broke just as the scientist behind the engineering, Dr He Jiankui, was addressing peers at a global summit. Facing down an uncharacteristically rowdy hall of scientists, he explained: with fertility treatments illegal for prospective parents with HIV in China, he had instead edited the girls as embryos...

The revolution in our ability to read, understand, write and hack DNA, the genetic code of all life, will touch most aspects of how we live. 

Geopolitical expert calls for transparency from China on COVID-19 origins March 17, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with Jamie Metzl, geopolitical expert and technology futurist, who argues for transparency and access to resources from China in order to find the origins of COVID-19. Metzl believes the most likely origin of COVID-19 is a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Metzl, a supporter of the World Health Organization's work, calls for a full, transparent investigation, rather than the previous joint expert committ...

Jamie Metzl, author of 'Hacking Darwin,' says the World Health Organization is structurally inadequate for a deep and aggressive investigation into COVID-19. EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Tuesday urged President Biden to use his leadership to ensure the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, by the World Health Organization (WHO) is free from conflict of interest -- amid continued concern over the probe by the controversial body. "I urge you to use your leadership to ensure investigations by the World Health Organization are free from conflict of i...

Kean University Distinguished Lecture Series Returns Virtually with CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers February 22, 2021, 1:18 pm | in     Kean University Distinguished Lecture Series Returns Virtually with CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers UNION, N.J. — Kean University’s popular Distinguished Lecture Series will return this week with CNN political analyst and best-selling author Bakari Sellers in a virtual conversation on the topic  Education, Civil Rights and Equality: Cornerstones for Our Future. The lecture will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday,...