Anonymous ID: 89f4df Jan. 29, 2024, 5:03 p.m. No.20326499   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6503 >>6532

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The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. He became widely known on 26 November 2018 after he announced that he had created the first human genetically edited babies. He was listed in the Time's 100 most influential people of 2019. The affair led to ethical and legal controversies, resulting in the indictment of He and two of his collaborators, Zhang Renli and Qin Jinzhou. He eventually received widespread international condemnation.-

 

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Anonymous ID: 89f4df Jan. 29, 2024, 5:03 p.m. No.20326503   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6509 >>6523 >>6532 >>6660

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late 15th century (in sense ‘place where Jesus fasted for forty days’): from medieval Latin quarentena and Anglo-Norman French quarenteine, quarenteinne. The modern sense is from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’, from quaranta ‘forty’, and dates from the mid 17th century.