Britain gives scientist go-ahead to genetically modify human embryos
Source: Reuters
Scientists in Britain have been give the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique that some say could eventually be used to create "designer babies".
Less than a year after Chinese scientists caused an international furor by saying they had genetically modified human embryos, Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist from London's Francis Crick Institute, was granted a license to carry out similar experiments.
"The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has approved a research application from the Francis Crick Institute to use new 'gene editing' techniques on human embryos," Niakan's lab said on Monday.
It said the work carried out "will be for research purposes and will look at the first seven days of a fertilized egg's development, from a single cell to around 250 cells".
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/health-genes-editing-idUSL8N15G1SU
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To quote from the synopsis: "....From there things go horribly wrong."
you could certainly advance the argument that it might have been best if man never played with fire. 
Nevertheless, I was being a little facetious in my prior post.
The risks of experimentation with human embryos still do have significant ethical, moral, legal, social, and practical problems that need to be addressed. If that wasn't the case, the article would not have been particularly newsworthy.
