HONG KONG – U.S.-based biotech firm Egenesis Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., has received $100 million through a series B funding round for the development of safe and effective human-compatible organs through gene editing.

LONDON – A paper that raised concerns for the future health of Lulu and Nana, the world's first gene edited babies, has been fully retracted at the request of the authors, after they failed to identify a problem in data from the U.K. Biobank on which their analysis was based.