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The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018.
This article is an effort to provide some deep context for the He Jiankui affair and to begin analyzing it. It focuses on He's experiment, without delving into the broader ethical issues around ‘human germline genome editing’ in the abstract.
- Henry T Greely
- 2019
Aug 1, 2019 · The Chinese couples, who were having fertility problems, gathered around a conference table to meet with He Jiankui, a SUSTech biophysicist. Then 33, He (pronounced "HEH") had a growing reputation in China as a scientist-entrepreneur but was little known outside the country.
Dec 30, 2019 · He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who stunned the world last year by announcing he had helped produce genetically edited babies, has been found guilty of conducting "illegal medical practices" and sentenced to 3 years in prison. A court in Shenzhen found that He and two collaborators forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into ...
Jan 3, 2020 · He Jiankui, the biophysicist who claimed to have created the world's first gene-edited babies, was given a three-year prison term for illegal medical practice. Two colleagues who assisted him received shorter sentences and fines. The case is a warning to other researchers in China who use CRISPR tools in clinical trials.
- David Cyranoski
- 2020
Feb 24, 2021 · Three books explore the He Jiankui affair and what gene editing means for the future of humanity. The article analyzes the stories of discovery, innovation, and controversy behind CRISPR, and the role of He as a \"cowboy scientist\".
Dec 30, 2019 · He Jiankui was convicted of violating a government ban by carrying out his own experiments on human embryos, to try to give them protection against HIV.
