Pharmaceutical

Chinese scientist - He Jiankui’s extraordinary claim regarding making the first babies — twin girls — with edited genomes astonished the world. Among researchers’ principal concerns are the potential effects of the genetic alterations on the health of girls. He, a genome-editing researcher at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen told that he impregnated a woman with embryos that had been edited to disable a gene that allows HIV to infect cells. Then this gene, known as CCR5, was targeted because it is well studied, and because its mutation offers protection against HIV infection. The CCR5 gene has been the topic of research since long ...