{"id":1354582,"date":"2022-03-02T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354582"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:38:48","slug":"report-china-may-soon-release-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-china-may-soon-release-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: China May Soon Release Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-china-may-soon-release-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354582&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui \u2014 sentenced to three years in prison in December 2019 for \u201cillegal medical practice\u201d after using the CRISPR gene-editing system to alter the DNA of human embryos \u2014 may be \u201creleased\u201d from prison in the \u201cnear future,\u201d China state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202202\/1253525.shtml\">reported<\/a> on Monday citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed in November 2018 that he and his scientific team at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, had used CRISPR technology to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00001-y\">edit<\/a> the genomes of a number of human embryos \u201cto disrupt a gene that codes for a protein that allows HIV to enter immune cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He revealed the action while <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-international-news-ca-state-wire-genetic-frontiers-health-4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d\">confirming<\/a> the birth of \u201cthe world\u2019s first genetically edited babies \u2014 twin girls,\u201d the Associated Press (AP) reported at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe said he altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments, with one pregnancy resulting thus far. He said his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but to try to bestow a trait that few people naturally have \u2014 an ability to resist possible future infection with HIV, the AIDS virus,\u201d the news agency relayed after conducting an exclusive interview with the Chinese researcher.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation shocked the scientific world as his experiment marked the first known use of gene-editing technology on human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists condemned He\u2019s actions, saying that gene-editing technology was too premature to be used for reproductive purposes. They also said the experiment was problematic because it risked introducing a mutation with potentially harmful effects,\u201d the scientific journal\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em> observed at the time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10013751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chinese-scientist-He-Jiankui-Summit-Human-Genome-Editing-Getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10013751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chinese-scientist-He-Jiankui-Summit-Human-Genome-Editing-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese scientist He Jiankui speaks at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese scientist He Jiankui speaks at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018. (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He detailed his use of CRISPR on human embryos in a series of interviews and speeches given in November 2018. <em>Science<\/em> magazine summarized the Chinese researcher\u2019s experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/researcher-who-created-crispr-twins-defends-his-work-leaves-many-questions-unanswered\">writing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[He\u2019s team] \u2026 engineered the genomes of twin baby girls to cripple a key receptor, CCR5, that HIV uses to infect white blood cells \u2014 a modification they may pass onto their descendants.<\/p>\n<p>The girls\u2019 father is infected with HIV, but the purported justification for the study was not to protect the girls from the AIDS virus during pregnancy [but later in life]. The parents used in vitro fertilization and the father\u2019s sperm was washed to remove HIV, which virtually eliminated the risk of the embryos being infected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He told media outlets in late November 2018 that an additional (third) baby whose genome he had modified was due shortly. This baby was allegedly later born at an undisclosed time, according to court documents published by Xinhua in December 2019. The People\u2019s Court of Nanshan District of Shenzhen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/201912\/1175208.shtml\">sentenced<\/a> He to three years in prison on December 30, 2019, after convicting him of \u201cillegal medical practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui \u2014 sentenced to three years in prison in December 2019 for \u201cillegal medical practice\u201d after using the CRISPR gene-editing system to alter the DNA of human<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}