…are we sure he’s not doing any more human germ line gene editing without ethical approval or patient consent?
Meow >:)
Wrong emoji. Should’ve used >:3
that’s how you know he didn’t succeed yet
that’s not an emoji
emoticon
Potato potato
Why is it called the Unicode Emoticons Block when it only includes emojis? Checkmate atheist!
In furtherance of peace, I suggest the term 3mojicon. Also in furtherance of rage.
>:3mojicon
Lmao, who’s this guy?
He was found guilty of medical malpractice after gene editing babies by treating their embryos with CRISPR/Cas9. He claims that he was trying to make them resistant to HIV, and that medical ethics are preventing cures from being discovered, but his critics say that we know CRISPR is too unreliable to use on a genome the size of a human’s, and is more likely to introduce dangerous mutations than apply the intended change, hence why no one else has done this before.
Making them resistant to HIV. How does he test it whether they actually are…?
My understanding is that they were embryos from HIV infected parents, so they had very little chance of avoiding infection during birth. His argument is that their chances of survival were already so low, there’s little harm that could be done if the treatment wasn’t effective.
I feel the need to point out that almost no babies get HIV from their mother as long as the mother is being successfully treated with anti retroviral medication.
“I need a human baby” is a very difficult sentence to start a conversation with. I don’t blame him for avoiding that awkward proposal.
Better to ask forgiveness than permission!
The ethics board does not approve the message.
So why is he allowed to work in this field again? Seems wild
Legendary mad scientist. Does stuff that’s obviously unethical but not illegal (yet), gets caught, the authorities patch the law, and then he moves on to new mad science. Once went to jail for editing a baby’s genome.
What is with the spamming? Is he cloning post?
Its just 4 posts. Relax. The guy in the pictures is a legendary psycho criminal that is the subject of lots of memery.
4 posts is like a quarter of all lemmy posts in a day
