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Jailed baby gene scientist He Jiankui 'should be made responsible'
for the children

Didi Tang, Beijing
Tuesday March 01 2022, 12.00pm, The Times
He Jiankui, who claimed that his interventions had made the children
resistant to HIV infection, was jailed in 2019
He Jiankui, who claimed that his interventions had made the children
resistant to HIV infection, was jailed in 2019
MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AP
Didi Tang, Beijing
Tuesday March 01 2022, 12.00pm, The Times

China is being urged to protect and constantly monitor the world's
first three genetically engineered children and make the man who
edited their embryos responsible for their wellbeing when he is
released from prison.

He Jiankui, 38, a genomics scientist, was jailed for three years for
"illegal medical practice" and fined the equivalent of PS300,000 in
late 2019, months after announcing the birth of twins, dubbed Lulu
and Nana. He claimed at a conference in Hong Kong that he had
rewritten their DNA to resist HIV infection, and that a third child
was on the way.

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The scientist forged documents from an ethics review panel to recruit
couples for the research and selected a man who was infected with HIV
as a participant. An early

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