Amid uproar, Chinese scientist defends creating gene-edited babies - STAT

Amid uproar, Chinese scientist defends creating gene-edited babies - STAT

'I feel proud': The scientist behind #CRISPRbabies speaks 

Three days after shocking the world with the revelation than he used genome editing to forever alter a pair of newborn girls, scientist He Jiankui got a chance to explain himself.

"In this particular case, I feel proud," He told a crowd of scientists at International Human Genome Editing Summit (and thousands more watching online).

But as STAT's Sharon Begley reports from Hong Kong, He's defense for flouting scientific norms — and perhaps the law — wasn't convincing to experts in attendance, who described his work as "misguided" and "appalling."

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