By: Futurism
December 30, 2019
On Monday, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported that He Jiankui, the researcher responsible for creating the world’s first gene-edited babies, had been sentenced to three years in prison on the charge of illegally practicing medicine.
Given that China condemned He’s research almost immediately after he announced the births of the twin babies, it’s not particularly surprising to hear that the researcher is being punished for his controversial experiment.
But included in Xinhua’s latest report was a bit of news we thought we might never hear: a third gene-edited baby has officially been born.
Back in November 2018, when He first announced the existence of the gene-edited twins, he also let slip that another woman was pregnant with an additional edited embryo.