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[1] [2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [3] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited babies. He was listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019. [4] The affair led to ethical and legal controversies, resulting in the indictment of He and two of his collaborators, Zhang Renli and Qin ...
[19] [20] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [21] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited babies. He was listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019. [22] The affair led to ethical and legal controversies, resulting in the indictment of He and two of his collaborators, Zhang Renli and ...
His story is narrated in the 2020 book The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans, written by Eben Kirksey, an anthropologist at the University of Oxford. [106] [107] A documentary book CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, written by Henry Greely, was published in 2021. [108] [109]
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For the first time in history, a team of researchers have successfully edited the genes of a human embryo. The researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou reportedly used the CRISPR/Cas9 ...
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Ethical issues related to gene therapy and human genetic enhancement concern the medical risks and benefits of the therapy, the duty to use the procedures to prevent suffering, reproductive freedom in genetic choices, and the morality of practicing positive genetics, which includes attempts to improve normal functions. [5]
The technique, independently developed by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, had been used to make genetically modified organisms and better genes in genetic diseases. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Samira Kiani was a researcher on CRISPR gene editing at Arizona State University and teamed up with Cody Sheehy of the Rhumbline Media to make a documentary ...