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Scientists were not sure if it's safe to use Crispr on people, the chinese tried it and now we know that someone has tried it. - that's about all of the info in

• hansjorg 7y ago
  > the chinese tried it "The chinese", really? That was one single rogue Chinese scientist.
  • tomasato 7y ago
    > The first trial of CRISPR in humans took place in China in 2016, when Lu You, a physician at Sichuan University, put gene-edited cells into a lung cancer patient. Since then, other Chinese trials have moved forward, though not much is known about them. > Last year Chinese researcher He Jiankui caused a global outcry ... Ethics aside, it’s definitely more than one Chinese scientist working in this area. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/despite-controversy-human-studies-of-crispr-move-forward-in-the-u-s/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/despite-controver...
  • reportgunner 7y ago
    "Chinese scientists have published the first report in a scientific journal of an attempt to use CRISPR-edited cells in a patient--a 27-year-old man who is HIV-positive." is the third sentence of the article. Perhaps the title should have been "Two rogue scientists are checking out CRISPR"