Chi­nese gov­ern­ment probe con­demns Jiankui He as rogue sci­en­tist pur­su­ing 'il­le­gal' work on gene-edit­ed ba­bies

When Jiankui He first pro­claimed the birth of the world’s first gene-edit­ed ba­bies in an an­nounce­ment that at­tract­ed glob­al con­dem­na­tion, he was quick­ly dis­avowed by his uni­ver­si­ty and the af­fil­i­ate hos­pi­tals im­pli­cat­ed in the project, which large­ly dis­tanced them­selves from the work. Two months lat­er, the gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion tasked with in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent is back­ing these in­sti­tu­tions and paint­ing him as a lone rogue sci­en­tist who skirt­ed mul­ti­ple laws and reg­u­la­tions in pur­suit of per­son­al gains.

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