The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, taking place this week in Hong Kong, was supposed to be a gathering of researchers and medical professionals for the purpose of furthering the scientific and ethical standards of genetic modification. Instead, it’s been thrown into chaos after a Chinese scientist claimed to have gone forward with his own quest to genetically modify human embryos, some of which have already been carried to term, resulting in the first genetically modified humans.
The man at the center of the controversy, He Jiankui, presented unverified research in which he claims to have tweaked the genes of human embryos in order to make them resistant to HIV. Two babies, a pair of twin girls, have already been born and more are allegedly on the way.
As you might imagine, this isn’t what the organizers of the summit had in mind.
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Scientists are scrambling to repudiate researcher’s claims of editing the genes of human embryos originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 20:08:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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