BIOLOGY 283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Thalassemia, Genetic Testing, Hemoglobin
16 Nov 2020
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When he jiankui, a scientist from the southern university of science and technology in. Shenzhen, announced his so-called success of germline editing of human embryos, he faced waves of criticism on scientific and ethical grounds that resulted in the suspension of all his research activities and funds. During the second international summit on human genome. Editing session in hong kong, jiankui stated that twin girls, lulu and nana, from his tests were doing great a home with their parents. He conducted this by adding some protein and instructions for a gene surgery right after regular ivf as a goal to prevent hiv infections to the babies, since their father carried the hiv virus. Critics immediately challenged his claims stating that other techniques already existed to prevent hiv transmission from father to children that do not require the ethic-breaking experiments through gene editing. Science and technology condemned this research as completely illegal and unacceptable, and.
