He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who said last year that he has created world’s first gene-edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison by a court in Shenzhen (China). The court convicted He Jiankui of violating a government ban by carrying out his own experiments on human embryos, in order to try to give them protection against HIV. He Jiankui was also fined three million yuan ($430,000) by the court. Two other men who conspired with He Jiankui to carry out the experiment were given lesser sentences by the court. The court stated that the men acted in pursuit of personal gain and fame, and had disrupted medical order. In November 2018, He Jiankui announced the birth of gene-edited twins (Lula and Nan), he was condemned globally with his gene-edited babies experiment. The Chinese government ordered his work to be suspended and placed him under police investigation. He was also sacked by the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen where he was an associate professor.
Source: Viewers Corner News.