We all know who He Jiankui is. But who the heck are Zhang Renli (two years) and Qin Jinzhou (18 months)??
Turns out they are the embryologists. THREAD on why that matters.
We got a copy of it a while back and you can see some excerpts here. technologyreview.com/f/614779/china…
here he is at the scene of the crime?
But he does appear listed in a second manuscript, describing run up experiments on animal and human embryos.
Zhang is second of six "co-first authors" on that paper
So is that the action being punished? Because, um, a fair of researchers do that (for research anyway).
I'd be keen to learn what is the exact Chinese law at issue here.
((One curious side issue is that Chinese court apparently did not locate the doctor who transferred the embryo! Totally strange. ))
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