Joe, Leslie, and Christine Percheski (Northwestern University) discuss the story of He Jiankui, a Chinese professor who claimed to have gene-edited babies to make them resistant to HIV. They discuss the research ethics problems presented by this research, but also the disturbing implications of a technology whose development seems immanent.
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This week, The Annex sits down with Christine Percheski of Northwestern University to discuss her recent research on the dissolution of marriages and cohabitation unions among parents. Christine and her colleague, Jess M. Meyer, recently co-published two articles on the topic. The first is a 2017 article in PLOS One, “Health behaviors and union dissolution […]
