Beijing: A Chinese scientist’s claim that he has created the world’s first genetically edited babies has provoked a strong backlash from China’s science community, with several institutions supposedly linked to the…
- Kirsty Needham
- The Canberra Times
Hundreds of Chinese scientists signed a letter on social media on Monday which condemned direct human experimentation as “crazy”.
He Jiankui, a researcher in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, said he altered the genes of a pair of twins while they were embryos to make the babies resistant to the…
He was not available to comment, his…