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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

He was found guilty of medical malpractice after gene editing babies by treating their embryos with CRISPR/Cas9. He claims that he was trying to make them resistant to HIV, and that medical ethics are preventing cures from being discovered, but his critics say that we know CRISPR is too unreliable to use on a genome the size of a human's, and is more likely to introduce dangerous mutations than apply the intended change, hence why no one else has done this before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"I need a human baby" is a very difficult sentence to start a conversation with. I don't blame him for avoiding that awkward proposal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better to ask forgiveness than permission!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The ethics board does not approve the message.

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