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Uzbekistan to introduce genetic research in cooperation with Harvard Medical School

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at a meeting with healthcare and pharmaceutical workers, instructed that at least $150 million in investments and grants be attracted to each region in 2027, a legal framework for bioethics be created, and training of specialists in hereditary diseases and genetic research be launched with Harvard Medical School. It was also announced that the experience of the neurosurgery school would be extended to the regions through a team-based work model.

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2026 studies reignite the debate over embryo gene editing

In the summer of 2026, two studies — by Kathy Niakan's group in Cambridge and Dieter Egli's group at Columbia University — applied base editing to human embryos. The method is considered more precise and safer than classic CRISPR-Cas9, but mosaicism has not been reduced to zero, and ethical questions — the boundary between therapy and enhancement, consent, stigmatization — remain open. No country permits heritable changes.

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