He Jiankui ([xɤ̂ tɕjɛ̂nkʰwěɪ]; 贺建奎; born 1984) is a Chinese biophysicist. He was named as the inaugural director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at...

The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist...

failed, or produced undesirable mutations. In November 2018, researcher He Jiankui created the first human genetically edited babies, known by their pseudonyms...

postdoctoral adviser to He Jiankui, the controversial scientist who purportedly created the world's first gene-edited babies. Quake claimed he had told him not...

University. It focuses on the circumstances involving Chinese biologist He Jiankui who created the first genetically modified humans in 2018. Featured experts...

were generally inconclusive about the effects of ivermectin on COVID-19. He Jiankui (China), former associate professor with the Southern University of Science...

development. In November 2018, however, a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, announced that he had created the first human germline genetically edited babies...

sheep, and the same gene-editing CRISPR-Cas9 technique allegedly used by He Jiankui in creating the first ever gene-modified human babies Lulu and Nana. The...

children like she is. He Jiankui has been vilified for editing the genes of Lulu and Nana to give them protection against HIV. He Jiankui, who is interviewed...

China reported, in light of the purported creation by Chinese scientist He Jiankui of the first gene-edited humans (see Lulu and Nana controversy), the drafting...

method, and the gene-editing CRISPR-Cas9 technique allegedly used by He Jiankui in creating the first ever gene-modified human babies Lulu and Nana. The...

documentary film King of Clones, which covered Hwang Woo-suk and this affair. He Jiankui affair Kim, Jongyoung; Park, Kibeom (2013). "Ethical Modernization: Research...

novels, which became Brave New World. He wrote in a letter to Mrs. Arthur Goldsmith, an American acquaintance, that he had "been having a little fun pulling...

2010, Deem was an academic adviser to He Jiankui, the controversial scientist who was involved with the He Jiankui affair related to gene-edited babies...

included: Yuan Cao: Graphene wrangler Viviane Slon: Humanity's historian He Jiankui: CRISPR rogue Jess Wade: Diversity champion Valérie Masson-Delmotte: Earth...

won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine (shared with Arthur Kornberg) after he discovered an enzyme that can synthesize RNA in the laboratory. However, the...

Leon Kass Stem cell controversy "Designer baby" "Frankenstein's monster" He Jiankui affair Hwang affair Against life extension Undesirability of immortality...

Controversies Genetically modified food controversies GMO conspiracy theories Pusztai affair Séralini affair StarLink corn recall He Jiankui affair v t e...

the case, Sun said that he would not make comments on individual cases, as this would "not [be] appropriate" for him. He Jiankui also said that despite...

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enhancement can also be difficult to establish. In November 2018, He Jiankui announced that he had edited the genomes of two human embryos, to attempt to disable...

and will face less resistance as a pathway of radical human enhancement. He also argues that the concept of "enablement" needs to be added to the debate...

disruption. The creation of HIV-resistant babies by Chinese researcher He Jiankui is perhaps the most famous example of gene disruption using this method...

selecting embryos for use in IVF. Some have proposed (or even attempted - see He Jiankui affair) genetic editing of human embryos via CRISPR-Cas9 as a potential...

Controversies Genetically modified food controversies GMO conspiracy theories Pusztai affair Séralini affair StarLink corn recall He Jiankui affair v t e...

appended to his list of the "five most dangerous conspiracy theories of 2016". He specifically singled-out candidates Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein as promulgators...

the Beijing-based DBN Group, was accused of stealing trade secrets after he was found digging in an Iowa cornfield. Genetically modified food Genetically...

changed his name to FM-2030. In the 1960s, he taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School when he began to identify people who adopt technologies...

Nicholas Hartsoeker in 1694 studied sperm under a microscope and the diagram he proposed for what sperm was, a homunculus in the head of the human sperm....

NASA astronaut Josh Earnest (1997), 29th White House Press Secretary He Jiankui (Ph.D. 2010), Chinese biophysicist John Doerr (BS 1973, MEng 1974), billionaire...