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He Jiankui, the scientist who claims to have used CRISPR to edit the genomes of twin girls born earlier this month, announced today (November 28) at a conference in China that a second pregnancy with a CRISPR-modified embryo is progress, the Associated Press reports.
“This is a truly unacceptable development,” Jennifer Doudna, the University of California, Berkeley, RNA biologist who co-invented CRISPR-based gene editing, tells the AP.
“I feel more disturbed now,” adds David Liu of Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute who invented a form of CRISPR that allows for base editing. “It’s an appalling example of what not to do about a promising technology that has great potential to benefit society. I hope it never happens again.”
Speaking at the Second International Summit On Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, He, a professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, said that ...
