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Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000) on charges of illegally practicing medicine. State media said on December 30, 2019, that acourt in Shenzhen convicted him and two others of carrying out human embryo gene-editing for reproduction. In November 2018, the scientist said he used gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to change the genes of embryos implanted in two women who later gave birth to three babies.
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