The court in Shenzen found him guilty of illegal practice and also fined him 3m yuan (US$430,000), according to the state news agency Xinhua. “They’ve crossed the bottom line of ethics in scientific research and medical ethics.”Gene editing will let us control our very evolution. | Dan Rather Read moreZhang Renli, who worked with He, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 1m yuan. He’s experiments, which were carried out on seven embryos in late 2018, sent shockwaves through the medical and scientific world. Although scientists have understood for some time how genes of unborn children can be edited, most countries have banned the practice on moral and ethical grounds.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2019 05:48 UTC