Its 7am in singapore and midnight in london. There is new hope today for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. For the first time, scientists in the us, along with experts from china and south korea, have successfully repaired a faulty gene in Human Embryos. But critics are warning that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious to eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. Its the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the Gene Editing System known a
Its 7am in singapore and midnight in london. There is new hope today for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. For the first time, scientists in the us, along with experts from china and south korea, have successfully repaired a faulty gene in Human Embryos. But critics are warning that the technique could, ultimately, be used to create so called designer babies. Our medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. The goal could not be more ambitious to eradicate inherited diseases. These scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road, editing dna in Human Embryos. So how is it done . Inside the nucleus of each of ourselves is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. Its the Instruction Manual for life. The scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious Heart Condition. They fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. They then injected the Gene Editing System known a
Problem. U. S. Military planes have hit taliban fighters on the outskirts of afghanistans Northern City of kunduz, and a nato spokesperson said the strike was to eliminate a threat to Coalition Troops and Afghan Forces. Taliban fighters seized the city after an Early Morning raid on monday, Afghan Special forces are still advancing towards the city despite having been ambushed by the taliban, local hospitals have received 16 dead bodies and treated 172 injured and Afghan Soldiers are set to have retaken the citys main jail and the police headquarters. Lets get an update from the story from bagland in afghanistan south of the city of kunduz and what is happening in the city of kunduz right now . The latest update we are getting is reenforcement Security Forces and special forces they were trying to advance kunduz city and turned back because simply they said there were too many ambushed on the road and suffered one dead and one injured and they turned back now it seems like it will be v
Scientists reveal flowing water on the red planet. First to afghanistan where Government Forces heading toward the Northern City of kunduz have turned back after they were ambushed by taliban fighters and kunduz was seized by the taliban on the Early Morning raid on monday and hundreds freed in a jail break may now join the fight we are told and we will be live in afghanistan but now we report. Reporter there are no Government Troops left here, taliban fighters now in control of large parts of kunduz city and here they are raising their flag in the city square and this battle is not over, the Afghan Government has a Major Military operation to recapture kunduz and special forces have been brought in and the u. S. Military talked about the outskirts of the city on monday morning and difficult for reenforcements to reach kunduz because the taliban set up boobie traps along the way and they broke open from the prison releasing hundreds of inmates and most are taliban fighters and have iss
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