Tag: Genetic Modification

China drafts rules on biotech after gene-editing scandal. Will the ‘rules’ be enforced once the ‘Restrainer’ is gone? What if the beast requires the Chinese government to pursue experiments on human enhancement?

China drafts rules on biotech after gene-editing scandal. Will the ‘rules’ be enforced once the ‘restrainer’ is gone? What if the beast requires the Chinese government to pursue experiments on human enhancement? YANAN WANG and FU TING. Associated Press•February 27, 2019 BEIJING (AP) — China has unveiled draft […]

China’s win-at-all-costs approach suggests it will follow its own dangerous path in biomedicine

China’s win-at-all-costs approach suggests it will follow its own dangerous path in biomedicine December 17, 2018 6.38am EST. The Conversation. The world was shocked by Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s recent claim that he’d brought to term twin babies whose genes – inheritable by their own potential descendants – he had modified as embryos. The […]