Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing ( www.theguardian.com )

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10630129

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.

Waldowal ,
@Waldowal@lemmy.world avatar

It does seem suspicious to claim you did something that can only be disproven if this child purposefully exposes themselves to HIV enough times that it's statistically impossible not to have caught it.

I, on the other hand, have made hundreds of people immune to HIV just by shaking their hands. 🤝

tacosanonymous ,

The ol could vs should conundrum.

CluelessLemmyng ,

GATTACA about to be a documentary

maculata ,

And I’m sure the CCP doesn’t give a shit.

Dkarma ,

He cured aids.

maculata ,

He CLAIMS he stopped a child from being susceptible to HIV.

atzanteol ,

Are you suggesting that a doctor who forged ethics documentation and performed experimental gene editing on humans would overstate the impact of his work? Pffft.

maculata ,

God Forbid

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.

lightnsfw ,

Lame, he should have gave them superpowers or 4 arms or something cool like that. Why do mad scientist shit if you're not going to go nuts with it?

nooneescapesthelaw ,

The ccp is the one who sent him to jail

maculata ,

Publicity.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In an interview with a Japanese newspaper, He Jiankui said he had resumed research on human embryo genome editing, despite the controversy over the ethics of artificially rewriting genes, which some critics predicted would lead to demand for “designer babies”.

“We will use discarded human embryos and comply with both domestic and international rules,” He told the Mainichi Shimbun, adding that he had no plans to produce more genome-edited babies.

He was widely condemned for having gone ahead with the risky, ethically contentious and medically unjustified procedure with inadequate consent from the families involved.

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.

He said the three genome-edited children were “perfectly healthy and have no problems with their growth”, according to the newspaper, adding that the twins, now aged 5, were attending kindergarten.

In his interview with the Mainichi, he said society would “eventually accept” human embryo gene editing in the quest to find treatments for genetic diseases.

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