He Jiankui, gene editing scientist, criticized by his peers

Hong Kong: One of the leaders of an international conference on gene editing said that the work of a scientist who claims to have helped create the world's first baby to be published revealed a failure of Self-regulation of scientists.

Nobel laureate David Baltimore said the work of the scientist who formulated this statement would be "considered irresponsible" because they did not meet the criteria that many scientists agreed on. has several years before being able to consider gene editing.

The Chinese scientist He Jiankui spoke earlier at the Hong Kong conference of the work that would have resulted in, according to him, births this month.

According to He Jiankui, the twins were designed to help them resist a possible infection with the AIDS virus.