He Jiankui Research Paper

He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysics researcher who was an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He Jiankui became wid

• The idea behind the gene-editing according to He Jiankui is to alter the gene and make it resistant to HIV. HIV gets to enter the human cells through a protein doorway used by a gene known as CCR5.

• Unfortunately, Jiankui, was not the first scientist to use CRISPR on human embryos, but he is the first to implant these edited embryos into women.

• Now he has claimed that one of these women gave birth to twin girls! These are the first babies born with germline DNA edits- and they had no choice (but we will get to that in a moment)!!!