This is insane. Jiankui He continues his work on editing embryos with CRISPR even after serving a prison sentence for his previous reckless editing of two embryos with no ethical oversight or regulation.
The US has elected to effectively ignore embryo editing by stopping federal funding to establish safe methods for heritable editing and banning the FDA from reviewing anything that comes close to the topic.
All we’ve done is set the stage for more rogue groups to move forward in the shadows.
CRISPR technologies are powerful gene editing tools because they are programmable. We are excited to describe 3 new programmable systems, IscB, IsrB, and TnpB, some of the most abundant genes on the planet, with potential for gene editing. @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/dY8FXBYIM8
It is self-destructive for any society to create a situation where a baby who is born into the world today automatically has pre-existing grievances against another baby born at the same time, because of what their ancestors did centuries ago.