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Three-year sentence for Chinese gene editing researcher

December 30, 2019 10:59 PM UTC
Updated on Dec 31, 2019 at 6:40 PM UTC

A Chinese court sentenced researcher Jiankui He to three years in prison and ordered him to pay a RMB3 million ($429,314) fine for using CRISPR-based gene editing to modify single-cell embryos. The ac...