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The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. [1][2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [3] after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited ...
Human germline engineering. Human germline engineering is the process by which the genome of an individual is edited in such a way that the change is heritable. This is achieved by altering the genes of the germ cells, which then mature into genetically modified eggs and sperm. For safety, ethical, and social reasons, there is broad agreement ...
Hanyu Pinyin. Hè Jiànkuí. IPA. [xɤ̂ tɕjɛ̂nkʰwěɪ] He Jiankui ([xɤ̂ tɕjɛ̂nkʰwěɪ]; 贺建奎; born 1984) is a Chinese biophysicist. He was named as the inaugural director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Wuchang Technical College, a private undergraduate college in Wuhan, in September 2023. [2]
A designer baby is a baby whose genetic makeup has been selected or altered, often to exclude a particular gene or to remove genes associated with disease. [1] [2] This process usually involves analysing a wide range of human embryos to identify genes associated with particular diseases and characteristics, and selecting embryos that have the desired genetic makeup; a process known as ...
Human genetic enhancement. An illustration of viral vector -mediated gene transfer using an adenovirus as the vector. Human genetic enhancement or human genetic engineering refers to human enhancement by means of a genetic modification. This could be done in order to cure diseases (gene therapy), prevent the possibility of getting a particular ...
Jacob Hanna. Jacob H. Hanna (Arabic: Yaqub or Yaoub; born 26 August 1979) [1] is a Palestinian Arab-Israeli biologist [2] who is working as a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. [3] An expert in embryonic stem cell research, he is most recognized for developing the first ...
Human embryonic development or human embryogenesis is the development and formation of the human embryo. It is characterised by the processes of cell division and cellular differentiation of the embryo that occurs during the early stages of development. In biological terms, the development of the human body entails growth from a one-celled ...
Ralph Brinster is acknowledged as one of the seminal founders of the field of mammalian transgenesis. [4][5][6] He is known throughout the scientific community for his revolutionary research in early embryo development, embryonic-cell differentiation, mechanisms of gene control, and stem cell biology. [5][7][8] Brinster's contributions to our ...