Published on 30 Nov 2018

​SSS in the News | Ng Yew Kwang talks about gene-editing babies: Should not completely eliminate human progress because of an incident

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NTU Singapore economist Prof Ng Yew Kwang wrote a commentary about the recent incident of a Chinese scientist gene editing babies. While he supported the condemnation of this incident, he also worried that this could reverse the progress made in gene engineering, which includes gene therapy. We should take a moderate balanced approach in handling this incident.