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Re:Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the firs... by bmogen on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:35AM (#28006163)
"For the first time" publicly shared. After the news of gene editing embryos without consent or knowledge in 2019 can we please be a little more realistic about what underpaid scientists chasing grants are willing to do and disclose?
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Re:Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the firs... by _Wintermute on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:22AM (#28007180)
For scientists chasing grants their currency is publications. There's little point in performing expensive experiments if you can't get a nature paper for your CV out of it.
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Re:Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the firs... by knolax on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:05AM (#28006677)
> After the news of gene editing embryos without consent or knowledge in 2019

Can you provide more info on this? I wasn't able to find anything specific.

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Re:Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the firs... by Dracophoenix on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:43PM (#28013331)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/china/gene-scientist-china-in...

However, despite what the gp posted, it didn't seem like He Jiankui's motivation was chasing grants.

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Re:Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the firs... by knolax on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:10PM (#28081271)
I thought you meant in the US.
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