I found this article about Human Embryo Editing which is quite intriguing. China has found a way (though not that successful) which has made it possible to change the genome sequence of an embryo. This study was published on April 18 (my birthday ^-^) in the 'Protein & Cell' journal.
Scientists told us they used a technique called 'CRISPR' (no clue what that is) "to cut out a faulty gene and replace it with a healthy one in human embryos."
Though, the technique only has a slight success rate which deems this research far too risky and dangerous. Many scientists have come across the conclusion that there should be a halt to such research because of the negative potential it carries.
Here is the link to the article which talks in more breadth about this subject:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/human-embryo-editing-is-incredibly-risky-experts-say/ar-BBiF5Jv
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