He Jiankui, who created world’s first CRISPR’d babies, sentenced to three years in prison

(By Andrew Joseph for STAT)

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced He Jiankui, the scientist who made the world’s first genetically edited babies last year and in turn incited a global uproar, to three years in prison for conducting an “illegal medical practice,” Chinese state media reported.  Continue reading article here…

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