ABOVE: FLICKR, DON MCCULLOUGH
Update (March 18, 2022): STAT reports that “During the clinical trial in 2017 and 2018, [Michael] Deem regularly received data about the research subjects, including sequence data of DNA pulled from the cells of the gene-edited children, according to a source with knowledge of the project,” an assertion Deem denies through his lawyers. The outlet also reports that Rice University conducted an ethics investigation of Deem, who left the institution in the summer of 2020.
Update (February 11, 2019): MIT Technology Review reports that Stanford University is conducting an investigation "to understand what liabilities or risks" it may have in connection with the CRISPR human editing trial.
Update (January 31, 2019): STAT reports that He's former PhD advisor, Michael Deem of Rice University, was listed as the final author on a paper submitted to Nature about the CRISPR gene-editing trial.
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