In 2018, a Chinese biophysicist announced he had gene-edited twin girls using CRISPR. The scientific consensus is that what he actually did was something else

In 2018, a Chinese biophysicist announced he had gene-edited twin girls using CRISPR. The scientific consensus is that what he actually did was something else

On 25 November 2018, two days before an international summit on human genome editing was due to open in Hong Kong, the MIT Technology Review broke the story that a Chinese biophysicist, He Jiankui, had used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the genomes of human embryos and that two of those embryos had been brought to term as twin girls. He confirmed the news within hours, in a series of videos posted to YouTube. He gave the children the names Lulu and Nana, …