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Chinese scientists who created ‘gene-edited’ babies imprisoned

By Spencer Neale
Published December 30, 2019 5:47pm ET
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Chinese scientists who created ‘gene-edited’ babies imprisoned
In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, He Jiankui is reflected in a glass panel as he works at a computer at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. A Chinese investigation says Chinese scientist He, behind the reported birth of two babies whose genes had been edited in hopes of making them resistant to the AIDS virus, acted on his own and will be punished for any violations of the law. | (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Three Chinese biophysicists who skirted the moral and ethical practices of their profession have been sentenced to prison after a court in Shenzhen, China, found them guilty of malpractice.

“The three accused did not have the proper certification to practice medicine, and in seeking fame and wealth, deliberately violated national regulations in scientific research and medical treatment,” read the statement from the court. “They’ve crossed the bottom line of ethics in scientific research and medical ethics.”

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