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This is a highly sensitivematter of national security

This is a highly sensitive
matter of national security

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This is a highly sensitive matter of national security.
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7 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:02:38
Uploaded
Mar 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Diamond Docs

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A Chinese biophysicist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human...
[foreign dialogue] - Make People Better 00:09
[foreign dialogue]
He was last seen at the Human Genome Editing conference - Make People Better 00:06
He was last seen at the Human Genome Editing conference
[melancholy music playing] - Make People Better 00:05
[melancholy music playing]
[dramatic music playing] - Make People Better 00:05
[dramatic music playing]
[Ben] So today I'm gonna talk to you - Make People Better 00:06
[Ben] So today I'm gonna talk to you
A project that has long been dreamed of and discussed, - Make People Better 00:16
A project that has long been dreamed of and discussed,
I'm Ben Hurlbut, I'm an associate professor - Make People Better 00:07
I'm Ben Hurlbut, I'm an associate professor
I study how science sits in relation - Make People Better 00:11
I study how science sits in relation
So the story that I'm gonna tell you - Make People Better 00:11
So the story that I'm gonna tell you
He wanted to be a kind of a defining project - Make People Better 00:07
He wanted to be a kind of a defining project
How we as a society respond to advances - Make People Better 00:09
How we as a society respond to advances
These are the first human beings born with genomes - Make People Better 00:09
These are the first human beings born with genomes
And the story that very quickly took shape - Make People Better 00:09
And the story that very quickly took shape
So when JK was taken into custody, - Make People Better 00:14
So when JK was taken into custody,
So he reached out to me - Make People Better 00:07
So he reached out to me
He wanted to tell somebody outside of China - Make People Better 00:05
He wanted to tell somebody outside of China
[phone ringing] - Make People Better 00:10
[phone ringing]
[JK] For the first kids ever in the human experiment, - Make People Better 00:11
[JK] For the first kids ever in the human experiment,
That's why I started on the monkeys and mice. - Make People Better 00:06
That's why I started on the monkeys and mice.
[indistinct] - Make People Better 00:12
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