The He Jiankui Affair

The He Jiankui affair refers to the global scientific and ethical controversy that erupted in 2018 when Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced he had created the world's first gene-edited babies using <a href="/article/crispr">CRISPR/Cas9</a> technology. His unauthorized experiment, aimed at conferring HIV resistance, sparked widespread condemnation, leading to his imprisonment and significant changes in international and national regulations concerning human <a href="/article/genome-editing">genome editing</a>.