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Two beautiful little Chinese girls named Lulu and Nana came crying into the world as healthy as any other babies a few weeks ago. . . . When Lulu and Nana were just a single cell, this surgery removed a doorway through which HIV enters to infect people.

If this is a false report, it is scientific misconduct and deeply irresponsible. If true, it is still scientific misconduct.

1. Author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree (2 wds.)
8. Eponym of a lab dish
9. Fingers and toes, to anatomists; feet, to poets
10. Prototypical caged wheel-runner
11. Prefix meaning “bone”
12. Groups between families and species
14. Like fillies but not like billies
17. U-shape bend in a river
19. Lagomorphs in warrens
22. Bird noted for singing in flight
23. Shrub in the heath family, for short
24. Fictional site of a cloning operation (2 wds.)

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