the embryos have a different system.me kind of proofreading activity that will always try to see some kind of blueprint that would require to rebuild. in this case the blueprint is usually the second gene, in our study, the second gene was normal for human. >> charlie: hank greely, what would you add to this, in terms of the significance and excitement in the medical community? >> well, i think it's right. i think one of the remarkable things about this study is they discovered something surprising. it didn't actually work quite the way everybody expected. when the story first broke last week early, none of the early stories really talked about the most interesting scientific finding, which is had this self-repair mechanism in the embryo. i think this is a really fascinating advance that might bring embryo editing to the clinic a little bit earlier, but i think we're still at least a decade out. maybe now we're nine years and ten months out. >> charlie: people have been trying to do -- i know i mentioned in china and oth

, dozens of embryos, not just a few.ls you that their success rate was pretty good. it was not 100%, it was about 72%, but that was pretty good. it tells you, you know, they are moving in the right direction. they did it with a relatively common gene mutation that causes a very serious disease. so they went for the kind of targeting we would want this kind of technology to be used for. and maybe even most importantly, they avoided two really big problems that had plagued the chinese efforts. they were able to get rid of a problem where the mutation would be copied in some cells of the embryo but not all of the cells. so, that creates, you know, kind of this patchwork of repaired cells and unrepaired cells which is not safe in terms of producing other embryos. also, they appear to have done this without creating a bunch of unwanted mutations. and that had happened in the previous effort. so, we're talking about an effort that looks like they created apparently healthy embryos. that means this could conceivably be safe to

now here are some of the embryos from the study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 of 58 embryose corrected. they were allowed to develop for five days. none was implanted. we are very excited about all the work, of course... the research has been welcomed by a team in london who have a license to edit human embryos. they say the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases, such as huntington's or, as in this case, a disease that affects heart function later in life, which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having having affected children passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition, but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life o

here are some of the embryos from the study in the journal nature after being edited, 42 of 58 embryosrrected. they were allowed to develop a five days, none was implanted. we're very excited about the work... the research has been welcomed by 18 in london, who have a license to edit human embryos. they say the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases like huntington, or a disease that affects heart function later in life, which can blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having affected children, passing on the defective gene, can be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition that was corrected in human embryos. she 110w was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest, in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition, but is unsure of whether she would consider gene editing. condition, but is unsure of whether she would consider gene editinglj wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a

now here are some of the embryos from the study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 of 58 embryosrected. they were allowed to develop for five days. none was implanted. we are very excited about this. the research has been welcomed by a team in london. who have a license to edit human embryos. they say the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases such as huntington's or, as in this case, a disease that affects heart function later in life, which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having infected children and passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i would not want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of risk. i mean that does obvi

now here are some of the embryos from the study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 of 58 embryose corrected. they were allowed to develop for five days. none was implanted. we are very excited about all the work, of course... the research has been welcomed by a team in london who have a license to edit human embryos. they say the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases, such as huntington's or, as in this case, a disease that affects heart function later in life, which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having having affected children passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition, but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i wouldn't want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life o

editing dna in human embryos so how was it done. inside the nucleus of each of our cells is odd genome billions of pieces of dna it's the instruction manual for life. the scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious heart condition. they first allies healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene they then injected the gene editing system known. as crispa. this scans the dna like. spell check or a* now. it then cops both strands of the dna and removes the faulty gene. healthy copy of the gene from the egg. was then naturally inserted. now here are some of the embryos from the study in the journal nature. often being edited. forty two of fifty eight embryos were corrected they were allowed to develop for five days. non was implante. we're very excited about all the work because. the research has been welcomed by a team in londo. who have a license to edit human embryos they say the technology could eventually help many families? there are some nasty genetic diseases such as huntington's or as in this case

now here are some of the embryos from a study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 of 58 embryoscorrected. they were allowed to develop for five days. none was implanted. we are very excited about all the work... the research has been welcomed by a team in london who have a license to edit human embryos. they said the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases such as huntington's or as in this case, a disease that affects the heart function later in life. which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having this affect your children and passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i would not want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of ris

embryos? : in walter: yes. dr. doudna: i think there needs to be a broad societal consensus concerning whether that type of use of gene editing should proceed. there obviously hasn't been the opportunity -- >> so if you knew that somebody, genetically an embryo, was going to get a fatal blood disease, ou would not fix it? dr. dr. doudna: i would advise other approaches, i think, today. i think the use of it in somatic cell application should happen first and you know, partly for safety reasons but really frankly also to give us some time to grapple with this issue. are we going to start editing the germ line. i think once it begins it will be very hard to stop it, very hard to say, i will do this thing that not that thing. everybody's feelings about this will be different. and who decides? who pays for it? walter: so you're saying that we, the responsible people should pause. not do it until we grapple. your co-author, i think a fwradge watt student of yours, sam sternberg, i sume it's a woman by the pseudonym chri

>> in embryos? >> yes. i personally am not ready to say.ere yet, i have to first of all, i think there societalbe a broad consensus about whether that type of use of gene editing should proceed. there obviously hasn't been the opportunity -- knew that somebody genetically an embryo was going disease,fatal blood you would not fix it? >> i would advise other think, today. somaticthe use of it in cell application should happen , and partly for safety to give ust frankly grappling withrt this issue. are we going to edit the germline? honestly it will be hard to stop. everybody's feelings will be different. who decides? for it? pay >> responsible people will grapple t do it till we grapple. your co-author was a graduate student of yours. yes.ah, it's aman -- i assume assume by the pseudonym named anstina, i assume entrepreneur type, this is very recently -- >> yeah. to him and says let's do it. she's trying to commercialize this. she would, i would assume, make our children taller and smarter. mean, it's pretty

. >>> there's been a breakthrough in embryo editing, and a search is under way for a professor linked case. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. "chicago tribune" reports a north university worker are wanted for a murder. the man's body was found last week at his apartment in a building where l building where laythun also lived. >>> a woman's body suffocated in sand. police think she fell into a hole while walking along the shore early monday. the coroner ruled her death as accidental. >>> olympia stadium is now sheltering ref jews. they started pouring in. >>> the "oregonian" reports that a scientist successfully modified a dna in human embryo. there's a genetic mutation that's blamed for a heart disease. >> all we have to do is in deuce it and tell the embryos where the damage is and the rest of them is done by the embryos themselves. >> the technique could lead to the prevention of technique in embryos but critics say it could open the door to parents who want designer babes. >>> and the evening stanford says the fastest human wants to slow down a little bit. u

they go into the embryo in the early stages, remove the mutation, they were as the embryo cells multipliedlicating healthy version of the gene, not the mutation. >> will very to do induce the tell embryos where the damage is. the rest of that is done by embryos themselves. reporter: researchers have published their findings in the journal "nature." they say it will be time before their procedure is ready to move out of the lab to be used in an actual pregnancy, but ethicists say now is the time for society to begin discussing and debating the potential consequences of the procedure. listen. >> i think there are ethical questions related to the safety of the intervention, whether they can actually target precisely. whether there might be other things that happy as the embrey row evolves that are unexpected. reporter: cheryl, gene editing raises concerns over designer babies. in other words, parents less concerned about improving the baby's health and more superficial changes like predetermining their eye color or hair texture. researchers behind the study say that is something they want to

you want to be able to have a healthy embryo. then u.s.or some other country's law, will have to change enough to allow there to be clinical trials where this can be tried in actual pregnancy. >> rose: president trump's relationship with the republican congress may be getting worse. the failure to repeal and replace the affordable care act left both the white house and capitol hill trading blame and pointing fingers at each other. and now republican senator jeff flake of arizona has published a new book that urges his party to rethink its hyperpartisan approach to politics. the book is called, "conscience of a conserve stiff: a rejection of destructive politicpolitics and return to principle." >> after gabby giffords was shot and a year later, she came back to the congress to resign the next day, but i was with her at the state of the union as her friend. i sat next to her. she was still unable to stand very easily when the president, president obama at that time, when the applause lines would come. and so i helped her up. and that left me

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scientists have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos for the first time.he us and south korean team used gene editing to correct dna that caused a deadly heart condition. the breakthrough could help eradicate inherited diseases, but critics fear it could lead to the creation of so—called designer babies. and now it is time to join sally bundock for world business report. charged up! sales surge at tesla, but can it stay number one in electric cars as rivals plug into the business? plus hard labourfor nissan as workers in mississippi vote on the right to form a union after a ill—year battle. welcome to world business report. i'm sally bundock. it is good to have you with us. also coming up, the dow closes above 22,000 for the first time. we'll get the latest from the asian markets. but first: we start in california with electric car maker, tesla. investors have been taking a huge gamble on the company, betting it's the future of the car industry, and pushing its share price ever higher. late last night, we got its latest set of results, and they haven't dis

for the first time they successfully repaired a genetic mutation in human embryos.this has the potential to prevent a birth defect. dr. jon lapook is following. this jon? >> reporter: anthony, for the longest time medical science has been grappling with how to prevent genetic knew -- knew tiggss and the terrible illnesses that come with them from being passed on generation to generation. the d.n.a. in this chromosome had a gene that causes a severe heart problem. so researchers used a special technique called crispr to find and remove the gene inside the fertilized egg. it's like finding a needle in a haystack. the cell then repaired itself, and at the end of the process, the gene that causes the heart defect was gone. that means theoretically the embryo could develop without the defect, but anthony, the f.d.a. prohibits the use of this technology to help achieve a human pregnancy. >> mason: jon, i know this technology is still in its infancy, but this raises serious >> john: huge ethical concerns. we've been thinking about this for decades, wow, you can repair a ge

say they've safely repaired a disease causing gene in human embryos for the first time.t jean target heart defect known for killing young athletes. critics have warned gene editing could lead to the production every designer babies, now, university spokesperson acknowledges safeguards, need to be set in place, but, says, there is so much good that could come from this research. >> of the stud that shows all we have to do is induce the self repair, tell embryos where this damage is, and the rest of them actually done by embryos themselves, so i've been joking we did very little ourselves. all we have to do is tell this is a problem and you may want to fix it. >> just last week scientists announce they've edited the genes of human embryos for the first time here in the u.s. the university's findings by the way with published on line in the journal nature. >> let's talk about your monday think morning, fearly 275,000 of the popular iphone cases that contain glitter suspends in the liquid, well, they're being recalled. -- recalled. announced the call back after chemical burn

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repaired a faulty gene in human embryos. the us and south korean team used gene editing to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. critics warn that eventually the method could be used to produce so—called "designer babies." president trump has relu cta ntly a pproved new sanctions against russia. moscow says the move amounts to a "full—scale trade war." and this video is trending on bbc.com. a scientist filming sharks off the coast of cape cod got some incredibly close up shots of a great white. luckily, the 2.5m shark shows more interest in the camera than the scientist. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk. three men, who dubbed themselves the three musketeers, have been found guilty of plotting a terror attack on a police or military target in the uk. they were arrested last august in an undercover police sting. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. as kaesler‘s as ka esler‘s latest as kaesler‘s latest earnings shift into high gear we look

and they don't implant the embryo. this is taking it at the early stage, one-cell stage, deleting or slicing out the genetic mutation. essentially what these resurgers did in oregon was create a healthy embryo that then theoretically would be reimplanted in the woman that would be missing that genetic defect that causes disease. >> way, way down the road here. >> yes. >> do we have any idea what this might cost if it actually comes to the public? >> think about first of all the cost of ivf first. can you imagine this is going to be an additional cost above that. then as we talk about before the legal and regulatory hurdles to go through and ethical to have insurance companies pay for it, honestly, this is year, year, and years ago. >> an insurance company if we get there, would you rather pay for this process than pay for treating a deadly condition down the line. >> that's a very astute point. while you can see this is a phenomenal scientific breakthrough it has certainly opened up pandora's box in terms of conversati

. >>> medical break through, researchers have been able to edit genes in the human embryo to repair a disease causing mutation but why the case is coupled with controversy. >> more in a moment. i do, pop, pop. >> laid back. >> got my mind on my money, money on my mind, sue. >> look at you, thomas. >> make sure there is a lot obfuscatering at a wedding like that, if you know what i'm talking about. we have a look at the haze over allentown this morning and looking at radar we will see, which we will, there are some showers, heading that way as well, so we have got temperatures in the 60's and 70's with buddy and muggy the dog off to a milder start then yesterday, current temperature is in philadelphia is 72, 5- mile an hour breeze. but this is what we're talking about on radar. thinks rain heading around allentown but rain in new york city and thunder, lightening is causing havoc in airports all over the country drug bob just told me about a ground stop in chicago thanks to these thunderstorms rumbling through new york city right now stand bay if you have a flight because your plane co

they successfully repaired a genetic mutation in human embryos.vent a birth defect. dr. jon lapook is following this. jon? >> anthony, medical science has been grappling with how to prevent again itting mutations and illnesses that come from them being passed down jen ration to generation. the dna in the chromosome had a gene that causes a severe heart problem. technique called crisper to find and help remove the gene inside a fertilized human egg. lying finding a needle in a hey stack. the cell then repaired itself and at the end of the process, the gene that causes the heart defect was gone. that means theoretically the embryo could develop without the defect. anthony the fda prohibits the use of the technology to help achieve a human pregnancy. >> i know this technology is in its infancy. this raises serious ethical concerns doesn't it? >> huge ethical concerns. been thinking of this decade. in medical school, wow, repair a gene. think about it. what are unintended consequences? who is to stay which genes if any should be repaired. what is a de

researchers led by a team in oregon fixed a disease causing gene in human embryos.but experts say in the future the same approach could potentially prevent a whole list of inheritable diseases and if that embryo develops into a person, not only do they not have the condition, they also won't pass it on to their kids. still the revelation is raising ethical concerns that the science may one day be used to create designer babies but the biggest question now is safety and while she's embryos did well they were destroyed early on so we need a lot more research before we know how viable this really is in the long run. >> still much work to be done but still at this point. >> always. >> all right. diane, thank you. >>> now amy with the rest of the morning's headlines. >>> good morning, guys. the state of emergency has been declared in oregon as crews battle several wildfires in record heat. the temperature today could hit 109. dozens of fires burning in the west including in montana where a firefighter was killed by a falling tree. >>> today investigators will be at the s