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Chinese scientist puts forward proposal for modifying human embryos to hel
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
He Jiankui sparked global outrage in 2018 when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited children. In 2019, he was sentenced to three years in prison in China for "illegal medical practices". He, however, remerged last year and surprised the global scientific community when he an
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Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies last year jailed for 3 ye
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 30 (ANI): He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who had shocked the global scientific community with his first genetically edited babies last year, was on Monday sentenced to three years in prison for carrying out "illegal medical practices."
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Experiment for gene-edited babies illegal: China
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 22 (ANI): The experiments conducted by scientist He Jiankui, which have led to the birth of the world's first gene-edited twins, have been termed as illegal by Chinese authorities.
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Experts lambaste Chinese scientist for creating gene-edited babies
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Nov 29 (ANI): The organising committee of the second International Summit on Human Genome Editing have called Chinese scientist He Jiankui's claims of creating the first gene-edited twin babies as "unexpected and deeply disturbing" and "irresponsible" on Thursday.
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