He Jiankui and colleagues found guilty, He gets 3 years in prison and pays a mediocre fine.
-- Chinese Scientist Who Genetically Edited Babies Gets 3 Years in Prison
He Jiankui's work was also carried out on a third infant, according to China's state media, in a new disclosure that is likely to add to the global uproar over such experiments.
By Sui-Lee Wee
Dec. 30, 2019
Updated 10:02 a.m. ET https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/china-scientist-genetic-baby-prison.html
BEIJING — A court in China on Monday sentenced He Jiankui, the researcher who shocked the global scientific community when he claimed that he had created the world's first genetically edited babies, to three years in prison for carrying out "illegal medical practices."
On Monday, China's state media said his work had resulted in a third genetically edited baby, who had been previously undisclosed.
Dr. He pleaded guilty and was also fined $430,000, according to Xinhua. In a brief trial, the court also handed down prison sentences to two other scientists who it said had "conspired" with him: Zhang Renli, who was sentenced to two years in prison, and Qin Jinzhou, who got a suspended sentence of one and a half years.
The court held that the defendants, "in the pursuit of fame and profit, deliberately violated the relevant national regulations on scientific and medical research and crossed the bottom line on scientific and medical ethics," Xinhua said.
American scientists who knew of Dr. He's plans are now under scrutiny. Dr. He's former academic adviser, Stephen Quake, a star Stanford bioengineer and inventor, is facing a Stanford investigation into his interaction with his former student. Rice University has been investigating Michael Deem, Dr. He's Ph.D. adviser, because of allegations that he was actively involved in the project.
Dr. Quake has said he had nothing to do with Dr. He's work. Mr. Deem has said he was present for parts of Dr. He's research but his lawyers have denied that he was actively involved.
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