Shenzhen city: Chinese researcher He Jiankui (pic) was sentenced to three years in prison and fined three million yuan (RM1.77mil) for illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing experiments, in which three genetically edited babies were born, a court in South China’s Shenzhen city announced.
The Nanshan district court in Shenzhen yesterday said after the first hearing that, He, former associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, learned that human embryo gene-editing technology can obtain commercial benefits and started to use the technology in assisted reproductive medical treatment since 2016.
It said He forged ethical review documents, recruited multiple HIV-infected couples, edited the genes of the embryos and implanted the embryos back into human bodies through assisted reproduction technology. The experiments made two women pregnant and three gene-edited babies were born.
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