Researcher Faces Investigation for Concealing 6-Year-Old Girl's Death in Gene-Editing Trial
Investigators say researchers hid the girl’s death and omitted her data after a severe immune reaction killed her during the trial.
- On Monday, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School launched an investigation into the death of Six-year-old Mei during an experimental CRISPR-based gene-editing trial led by Zilong Qiu at Xinhua Hospital.
- Her parents paid over $800,000 for the experimental therapy targeting her Snijders Blok-Campeau condition, despite researchers ignoring warning signs that emerged during earlier animal trials.
- Researchers concealed Mei's death by omitting her data from a study published in Nature, while Xinhua Hospital allegedly facilitated this suppression despite Qiu facing no repercussions.
- The School stated it attaches 'great importance to the matter' and established a special working group to investigate, following reports from Science Magazine and Retraction Watch last week.
- This incident recalls the Jiankui scandal from over a half decade ago, reflecting persistent concerns regarding transparency and biomedical ethics in China, where researchers face repeated criticism for suppressing negative trial results.
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The Faculty of Medicine of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai announced that it will initiate an investigation into the unknown death of a 6-year-old girl who received an experimental gene therapy from one of its neuroscientists.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine has launched an investigation into the case of a 6-year-old girl who died a week after undergoing brain gene editing at an affiliated university hospital, a matter that was reportedly covered up for over a year. The international journal Science reported on the 27th (local time) that "the university promised to take 'stern measures' depending on the results of the investigation." Previously, on th…
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JD RuckerCommunist China’s Reckless Gene Experiment Kills Six-Year-Old Girl
She walked into the hospital wearing a pink jacket and blue pants covered in cartoon bears. Six years old. Smiling. Treating the whole thing like a family outing. Her parents believed the doctors at Shanghai’s Xinhua Hospital would fix the genetic glitch slowing her cognitive development. Instead, Chinese researchers pumped trillions of viruses into her...
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