What are crispr babies?

Crispr babies are tiny humans who were made with a special tool that helps fix mistakes in their body's blueprint.

Imagine your body is like a recipe book, it tells your cells how to grow and work. Sometimes, the recipe has little typos, which can make you sick or give you special powers (like being really good at sports!). Crispr is like a pair of tiny scissors that can cut out those typos and replace them with better ones.

Scientists use crispr to change the recipe in the babies' cells before they were born. This means when the babies grow up, their bodies might be stronger or healthier because they have a cleaner recipe from the start.

It's like if you had a spelling mistake in your favorite storybook, someone used tiny scissors to fix it so you can read it perfectly every time!

This tool is super useful because it can help people avoid getting certain diseases. It’s not magic, but it feels almost that way, like giving the babies a head start in life!