A secretive Silicon Valley-backed company called Preventive, funded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, is advancing efforts to genetically engineer babies through embryo editing, despite global ethical concerns, legal barriers, and a 2018 precedent that shocked the s
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