Scientists Reveal Unexpected Outcome of China's Rogue Human Gene Editing Trial
In 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui, Ph.D., altered the DNA of two human embryos, which were born as two healthy twin girls named Lulu and Nana. Against the violent ethical uproar in the medical community, He defended his experiment by claiming that the genetic changes he made were benign — they were meant to promote HIV resistance — but research published Monday in Nature Medicine has revealed that he may have spoken too soon.
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