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Banned Chinese gene-editing scientist on TIME's 2019 list
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who was banned after he claimed the birth of world's first gene-edited 'HIV-resistant' babies in 2018, is on the TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People 2019 list. He had reportedly altered embryos from seven couples with HIV positive males. "His reckless experimentation...shattered scientific...ethical norms," gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9's Co-inventor wrote.
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