The story of life seems to have an unsettling new plot twist. A young Chinese scientist, described by his Stanford adviser as ‘super-bright’, heads back to his homeland in 2011 and falls off the academic radar. Years later, on the eve of a global gene-editing summit in Hong Kong, he resurfaces to announce he has created the world’s first gene-edited babies.
有關生命的故事中似乎出現了一個令人不安的新轉折。中國一位年輕的科學家——被他在史丹佛大學(Stanford)的導師形容爲「絕頂聰明」——於2012年回到了他的祖國,然後在學術圈銷聲匿跡。多年後,在香港舉行的第二屆人類基因組編輯國際峯會(Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing)前夕,他再次露面並宣佈他創造了全世界首例基因編輯嬰兒。
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