He Jiankui gets 3 years for illegal human embryo gene-editing

2019-12-30 Xinhua Editor:Gu Liping

Chinese researcher He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (about 430,000 U.S. dollars) for illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction, in which three genetically edited babies were born, a court in south China's Shenzhen city said Monday.

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