China opens a study to a scientist who has created "super babies" immunized against HIV: "It's a serious violation of ethics"

Yesterday, he shocked the world by announcing that only the Chinese could do anything: the creation of genetically modified human beings.

And not the creation as a future project, but the birth of two babies immunized against various diseases, among them they are seropositive.

The twins call Lulu and Nana and are the culmination of a survey conducted in the Asian country since 2015. The responsible scientist, He Jiankui, of the Chinese city of Shenzhen, was emphatic facing criticism. saying that it will be society that "will decide what to do next".

And this fact did not leave the scientific community indifferent, but divided it in two. Those who consider it crazy and who consider it justifiable.

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More than 100 Chinese scientists, mostly biologists and doctors, say it's "crazy", bringing "a blow to reputation." Globalization and development of biomedical research in China. "

" This kind of study is threatened by such experiments. "Science works under a social license: scientists work within the boundaries defined by the concerns of the general", a said Darren Saunders, a professor at the University of New South Wales Medical School with international media.

But more than the scientists' opinion, who counted and who cut the ground more strongly was that of the National Health Commission of China. "We asked the health authorities of Guangdong Province to immediately open an in-depth investigation to establish the facts," they said Monday evening. [19659005] University

and the Southern University of Science and Technology, in Jiankui, said in a statement to have ignored the project initiated more than nine months ago by the scientist.

"This is a serious violation of ethics and academic standards," the entity said. At the center of the debate, on ethics in human experimentation, and if the technique used counts as such.

In order for the research that will launch the university to be "deeply concerned", the first step is to communicate with He in order to know the level.

The second step will be to form an independent committee of international experts to conduct the research.

It is clearer, however, can be obtained today. The second International Summit on Human Genome Publishing is scheduled to meet today in Hong Kong on November 27, and He's appearance is expected.