He Jiankui, chinese doctor who last year shocked the scientific community by announcing the birth of twin girls whose DNA was to be changed to obtain the immunization from Hiv, was convicted by the Shenzhen court to three years in prison for medical practice to be illegal and fined 3 million yuan, equal to about 430 thousand dollars.
š – This is a bit of an over-reaction …. even for me, some anonymous geek with a parody account.
We need tighter regulation, but not the death penalty for someone pushing the envelope of medical technology that one day will save millions from terrible illnesses….
ā Bored He Jiankui (@BoredJiankui) January 8, 2019
According to the Xinhua news agency, the researcher has been judged guilty for “having carried out illegally genetic manipulations of embryos for reproductive purposes”.
