〔Chinese court sends strong signal by punishing He Jiankui and two colleagues. 〕
A Chinese court has sentenced He Jiankui, the biophysicist who announced that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies,
to three years in prison for “illegal medical practice”, and handed down shorter sentences to two colleagues who assisted him.
The punishments put to rest speculation over whether the Chinese government would bring criminal charges for an act that shocked the world, and are likely to deter others from similar behaviour, say Chinese scientists.
There has been much speculation about whether other scientists would follow in He‘s footsteps, especially given the ease of using the most popular gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9.

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