Cautious journalists know the risk of identifying achievements/breakthroughs/discoveries etc as "world firsts". You certainy got the impression from BBC reports over recent days that Newcastle University was way ahead in the science of "genetically altering" embryos to avoid risks of certain serious genetic disorders in babies.
Ironically it was the BBC who first revealed that 30 genetically-altered babies had been born, and born healthy, in the United States in 2001. Shortly after the story came out, the US Government banned the technique. Which the UK may now allow.
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