In 2018, two babies in China were born with immunity to HIV. Chinese biophysicist Dr He Jiankui had genetically altered the genome of these babies, disabling the gene that made them susceptible to HIV. He achieved this using the “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat system” also known as CRISPR. Essentially acting as “genetic scissors”, CRISPR cuts, repairs and replaces genes within the nucleus of a cell (Abdelkader). The global reaction was one of alarm. Dr He had overstepped, disregarding the global scientific fears about genetic modification of the germline. Illegal in…