Chinese authorities have confirmed the birth of GM children and the second pregnancy during the experiments, Cisangkuy Ho

Chinese authorities have confirmed the birth of GM children and the second pregnancy during the experiments, Cisangkuy Ho

The investigators assigned to investigation of Czankra Hae, today introduced to the Chinese Agency “Xinhua” the preliminary results of their work. They were able to confirm the birth of Lulu and Nana, the first genetically modified children in the history of mankind, and that the second pair also participated in the experiment he awaits the birth of another child.

25 November 2018, the journal MIT Technology Review published an article in which you learned that the Chinese scientific Cisangkuy Hae conducts an experiment to create genetically modified children. The next day, the Associated Press published an interview with Chomsky, in which he confirmed this information and announced that the first in human history, genetically modified babies have already been born. According to him, he managed to make the CCR5 gene mutation embryos, similar to the natural CCR5Δ32 mutation into cells of the media which cannot get a human immunodeficiency virus.

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Then Ho spoke at the conference in Hong Kong, where a little more detail told about their work and answered questions from colleagues from all over the world. Almost all the leaders in the field of molecular genetics have condemned the experiments Hae and pointed not only to lack of medical necessity of such manipulation, but the technical imperfection of his work.

The next day the Chinese Ministry of health and the Ministry of science and technology together with the Chinese Association for science and technology demanded that “relevant departments” to stop the activities of the laboratory Hae and conduct an investigation. “The nature of this incident is disgusting,” reads a joint statement of the two ministries of the PRC.

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