In early 2018, Dr. He Jiankui, a (then) 34-year-old Chinese biophysicist, traveled to an Arizona science conference to meet with one of his heroes, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson, …
“I know him just like many people know him, in an academic meeting,” he said.He may be the sacrificial lamb for gene editing—as Harvard geneticist George Church says in, He was “willing to be the martyr that came first”—but his views aren’t necessarily fringe. Consider, the 1997 sci-fi movie about a futuristic world in which children are conceived with genetic engineering, selected for favoriable hereditary traits like high IQ and long life-span.
Despite the encouragement early in He’s research, the scientific community—including the Shenzhen Harmonicare Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Shenzhen, China, whose ethics board allegedly gave Dr. He the green light—turned their backs on him.
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