He was jailed for three years and fined $430,000.
His announcement was met with worldwide condemnation and shortly after he was fired from his position at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. He was then apparently placed under some form of house arrest while authorities in China investigated his work.
In January, state news agency Xinhua announced that the government had concluded He had carried out gene editing activities on humans despite this practice being banned in the country. The case was then handed to the Ministry of Public Security.
He Jiankui at the International Human Genome Editing Summit in Hong Kong in November, 2018. He has now been jailed for three years for his experiments.The court, in Shenzhen city, said all three had knowingly broken the laws around gene editing. The verdict said the three had acted"in the pursuit of personal fame and gain."
When He made his announcement, few details of what he did were made available. Earlier this month, manuscripts of his research were published by MIT Technology Review, with experts calling the workFyodor Urnov, genome-editing scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, told MIT that the manuscripts show how no effort was made to carry out laboratory experiments to show the gene editing worked before implanting the embryos in a woman.
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