By: Kristin Houser
June 24, 2019
Baby Boom
When Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced that he’d edited a pair human embryos and brought them to term, resulting in the births of the first gene-edited humans, scientists across the globe quickly condemned his controversial experiment.
But Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov was apparently inspired, not appalled, by He’s work. Earlier in June, he told Nature that he hopes to create his own CRISPR babies, possibly before the end of 2019 — and now leaders within the global science community are saying there’s nothing they can do to stop him.