Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies.
— potentially altering the course of human evolution. The work was also medically unnecessary and carried the risks of changing other genes.
But Benjamin Hurlbut, an expert in bioethics and biomedicine at Arizona State University who is in touch with He off and on, said “there's absolutely no reason” to believe he will do anything similar, and that He has the know-how and connections to build respectable projects in biotech.Kent sociologist Joy Zhang, an organizer of the U.K.
“We’ve exposed that there is little substance” behind He’s ambitious Duchenne gene therapy plans, the report said. “We were concerned that he might endanger another vulnerable population if his new venture remains unchecked.” After He’s presentation, a fellow scientist pressed him about whether he thought so-called “heritable human genome editing” should be banned. The question has become especially timely, experts say, as the U.K. fertility watchdog agency pushes for an overhaul of fertility laws that some worry could eventually lead to the legalization of the practice.Cultural anthropologist Eben Kirksey, a fellow of St.
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