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He Jiankui

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Chinese biophysicist, born 1984, trained at Rice and Stanford before returning to the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. He announced in November 2018 that he had used CRISPR to edit the CCR5 gene in human embryos, resulting in the birth of twin girls and, later, a third child. He was tried in a closed court in 2019, sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and released in 2022.

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