meow >:)

...are we sure he's not doing any more human germ line gene editing without ethical approval or patient consent?
- Meow >:)
- based

The disease is lack of kawaii, and the cure is catgirls.
- Instance checks out haha
- Very true ararararararagi

What if cat girls are the cure to all disease you ever think about that huh Jiankui He

Lmao, who's this guy?
- Legendary mad scientist. Does stuff that's obviously unethical but not illegal (yet), gets caught, the authorities patch the law, and then he moves on to new mad science. Once went to jail for editing a baby's genome.
- He was found guilty of medical malpractice after gene editing babies by treating their embryos with CRISPR/Cas9. He claims that he was trying to make them resistant to HIV, and that medical ethics are preventing cures from being discovered, but his critics say that we know CRISPR is too unreliable to use on a genome the size of a human's, and is more likely to introduce dangerous mutations than apply the intended change, hence why no one else has done this before.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui
  
  So why is he allowed to work in this field again? Seems wild
  
  "I need a human baby" is a very difficult sentence to start a conversation with. I don't blame him for avoiding that awkward proposal.
  
  Making them resistant to HIV. How does he test it whether they actually are...?
  
  Ok, but, does it really not work, or like, it's just that you would have to run it in a batch and kill the bad cells, which could be unethical on human embryos?
  Like, could we grow legs on a lungfish (which Google says has a larger genome than humans) using CRISPR-cas9 if we did not care about botched embryos?
  
  yea he was the chinese dude, doing unsanctioned/unethical sciences, which probably dint work nor his paper would be published anyways.
- A scientist who has served time in prison for editing human genetics. It was with the intention of combatting HIV, but it seems to have been done with little to no regard for medical ethics, including misleading the parents of the babies involved and apparently putting them on the hook for the costs of the experiments if they pulled out
- He illegally modifyied a couple embryos in a way he claimed would make them resistant to certain diseases and subsequently artificially inseminating them (with consent).
  He was sentenced to 3(?) years in prison by China and lost his job.
  Not sure where he's working now or what kind of research.
  
  Well the obvious follow up is, clearly, cat girls.