Earlier Beijing Yiye You Run Tian
I was shocked.
Xu Nanping, the deputy minister of China Science and Technology, admitted that he had reactions after he learned about gene editing babies in a teahouse with foreign media reporters on the 27th.Shocked, it can be said that the whole society reacted to the collective reaction of this storm.
With He Jiankui, an associate professor of Southern University of Science and Technology, who created a gene editor baby, explained more about the situation at the second international human genome editing summit in Hong Kong yesterday and made an apology without apology.
See how he apologized first.He said: First of all, I have to apologize.The data of my entire experiment was leaked due to confidentiality problems.So I have to share this data with you on this occasion today.
In other words, he did not apologize to editing the baby's gene, but just paved the way for the introduction.In addition, the news of the first immune -loving baby in the world was announced by the media and in the video. How could it be leaked by others?
He pointed out in a video of the experimental results that the first IVF was also controversial when he was born, but later test tube technology was confirmed to benefit the people.He showed several controversial human gene editing experiments in the previous developed countries in the demonstration materials yesterday, thinking that his experimental nature was similar.He also pretended to be wronged that if this experiment occurred in developed countries, he believed that it would not cause such a big storm.
The logical problem of his claim is that although some innovative practices are controversial when they are coming out, but they are later accepted, but this does not mean that all innovative practices will have good results.For example, the invention of the atomic bullet is a disaster or a blessing, and there are still controversy.In addition, the dispute is because he does not come from a developed country, and is trying to transfer the criticism of all circles including Chinese scientists.
The most important loophole in his logic is to interpret his selfish behavior as a dream of giving birth to the illness of love.Many scientists have pointed out that there are already low risks and effective ways to block the spread of viruses and baby transmission of love. The use of genome editors is like shooting birds with cannons.If he edit the gene is to solve the disease that has not been treated at present, it may still be considered that it is not completely unable to consider accepting it.
He said lightly to say that parents are well informed and have been educated well.We all know that people are more fragile when they are sick, and they are particularly willing to listen to any rhetoric that claims to get rid of or reduce the pain.This is why a third party requires a third party such as the Ethical Committee and other medical knowledge to rigorously judge.
Recently, many popular science articles have explained many risks of editing genes, such as off -target problems in the editing process (edit the gene fragment that should not be edited).Many comments have also compared the severity of changing the human gene spectrum into the box that opened Pandora.
However, he said lightly about the consequences: If the experiment has unexpected side effects or harm, I will feel the same pain as them (patients and family members), and I will take responsibility.Oh my god, if the question happened to the baby girls and their offspring, can he be transformed into a bitter fruit in instead of them?
He Jiankui's behavior was aware of the crime.Some media flipped out. In a paper published two years ago, he discussed the many risks of editing genes and should not try easily.
Xu Nanping told reporters the day before yesterday that the principles of ethical guidance of human embryonic stem cells issued in 2003 stipulated that the purpose of research can be used to implement gene editing and modification on human embryos, but the in vitro culture period is self -fertilized or nuclear transplantation must not exceed 14 days.If a gene edit baby confirms that it is born, it is prohibited by being banned, and it will be processed in accordance with relevant Chinese laws and regulations.Now that it was the prohibition of being banned, He Jiankui claimed that he was right?
