• Indian J Med Ethics · Oct 2019

    Comments on the CRISPR Gene-edited babies' case.

    • Yali Cong.
    • Professor, Medical Ethics Programme, and Dean, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Law, Peking University Health Science Center, Yifu Teaching Building, 601#, 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100 191 CHINA(PRC).
    • Indian J Med Ethics. 2019 Oct 1; 4 (NS) (4): 297-300.

    AbstractTwin girls were born in China in November 2018 to an HIV-positive father and an HIV-negative mother, through in vitro fertilisation in combination with CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing which altered their CCR5 genes. An investigation found that regulations were broken, and documents were forged. The government needs to address various regulatory defects, improve oversight of research, and implement institutional policies on conflict of interest.

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