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Didn't they put someone in prison in China for doing this to babies? https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-scientist-who-produced-genetically-altered

• ben_w 3y ago
  Animal trials != human babies No suggestion of "forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos" in this case, either. > The field of gene editing will carry the hashtag #CRISPRbabies in the mind of the public for a period longer than He's sentence, and that is an additional crime he committed but was not formally charged with," says Fyodor Urnov, a CRISPR researcher at University of California, Berkeley
• heavyset_go 3y ago
  No, not the same thing at all. The intent of that scientist was to purportedly edit genes that made some people susceptible to some HIV infections so that the virus won't be acquired. The intent in the OP is to remove virus genetics from infected cells' genomes with an existing HIV infection.