US intelligence has revealed that China conducted "human testing" on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with "biologically enhanced capabilities," NBC reported citing top American intelligence official. "There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power," wrote Ratcliffe, a Republican former member of Congress from Texas. "The People's Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II," he wrote. His office and the CIA did not immediately respond to the claims made by Ratcliffe against China. The scholars have explored Chinese research using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, short for "clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.

Source: Mint December 05, 2020 17:03 UTC