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The audience reacts as He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks at the conference on human genome editing in Hong Kong on November 28, 2018.
HONG KONG – The Chinese government has ordered the cessation of work by a medical team that claimed to have helped create the first baby in the world to be changed.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping told CCTV on Thursday that his ministry was strongly opposed to efforts to produce binoculars earlier this month.
Xu called the team's actions illegal and unacceptable and said that an investigation had been ordered.
The researcher He Jiankui claims to have altered the DNA of the twins to try to make them resistant to infection with the AIDS virus. The mainstream scientists have condemned the experiment, and universities and government groups are conducting research.
There is no independent confirmation of what he says he did. He said that a second pregnancy could be in progress. / ee
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