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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. [1] [2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [3] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited ...
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.
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Feb 24, 2021 · Decoding the CRISPR-baby stories. Three books explore the He Jiankui affair and what gene editing means for the future of humanity. The conventional story of CRISPR genome editing is one of heroic ...
The world was shocked in Nov. 25, 2018 by the revelation that He Jiankui had used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (‘CRISPR’) to edit embryos—two of which had, sometime in October, become living babies. This article is an effort to provide some deep context for the He Jiankui affair and to begin analyzing it.
- Henry T Greely
- 2019
Mar 7, 2023 · The sweeping policy arrived 1 week before the opening of this week’s Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London, which featured a session on how China now regulates human genome editing. Work on the new rules began in 2019, just months after He claimed to have altered the twin girls’ DNA to make them resistant to HIV ...
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. He became widely known on 26 November 2018 after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited babies. He was listed in the Time's 100 most influential ...
