Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing
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China’s He Jiankui, who used Crispr to edit genome, says he is working on genetic diseases and suggests human embryo gene editing will one day be accepted

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He Jiankui’s experiments sent shockwaves through the medical and scientific world. He was widely condemned for having gone ahead with the risky, ethically contentious and medically unjustified procedure with inadequate consent from the families involved.

The court found that He had forged documents from an ethics review panel that were used to recruit couples for his research.

He said he had used a gene-editing procedure known as Crispr-Cas9 to rewrite the DNA in the sisters’ embryos – modifications he claimed would make the children immune to HIV.

  • RBG
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    8 months ago

    At most he achieved that these kids don’t get infected if exposed. That is very far away from a cure. The gene he chose to edit is also not necessarily the best for the purpose, although I don’t recall the reasons anymore.