China bans researcher who claimed to have created first gene-edited babies resistant to HIV from experiments

In a fertilised human-egg cell, the scientist, He Jiankui, intends to make a person resistant to HIV by disabling a gene that forms a protein doorway allowing the virus to enter the body.

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