The world got a lot closer to preventing genetically edited babies, at least for the near future. I worried that China would be a place where this would happen as they have the resources and are trying to become a top tier country for innovation, not just manufacturing. However, China has just clarified that at least for now they will be banning gene editing on babies.
New Chinese Law Makes Embryonic DNA-Editing Illegal
New Chinese Law Makes Embryonic DNA-Editing Illegal May 28, 2019 Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC
Man made by DNA (CC0 pixabay)
The world got a lot closer to preventing genetically edited babies, at least for the near future. I worried that China would be a place where this would happen as they have the resources and are trying to become a top tier country for innovation, not just manufacturing. However, China has just clarified that at least for now they will be banning gene editing on babies.
Technode reports:
The most recent draft of China’s updated civil code includes new regulations protecting human genes in adults or embryos from experimentation that could “endanger human health or violate ethical norms.” The new law lists a person’s genes in a section of protected personality rights, and according to lawyers who spoke to Nature, anyone experimenting with human genes will be responsible for what happens to their subjects.
A few months back when Dr. He had made the first two gene …
Red China never changes.
中華民國 (China).
中華 means : Great China is Center of the world.
Pray for that problem (profile) please.