Is Chinese Bioethics Ready to Move Forward from the CRISPR Baby Scandal?
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing is being held in London this week. Chinese biophysicist He Jiankuiās illegal experimentation with heritable human genome editing, announced at the Second International Summit in Hong Kong four years ago, will haunt some of the discussions. To what extent has the Chinese bioethics community addressed gaps exposed by the Crispr Baby scandal and prepared to prevent similar future scenarios?