China jails scientists for CRISPR gene-edited babies
By DW
30 December 2019 |
11:30 am
A court has found Chinese scientist He Jiankui guilty of illegal medical practice. He had claimed credit for genetically engineering twins resistant to HIV in a controversial procedure.
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