‘CRISPR babies’ scientist: ‘I’m actually doing quite well’
He Jiankui told colleagues he is staying in a university apartment in the Chinese city of Shenzhen "by mutual agreement" but is free to leave.
The Chinese scientist who shocked the world in November by announcing that twin girls had been born from embryos that he had created using genome editing has told two Western colleagues that, contrary to a flurry of reports that he is under house arrest and possibly even facing the death penalty, he is “actually doing quite well here.”
In an email and a phone conversation, He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, that he is able to read Western news reports about himself, including earlier this week that he might be facing the death penalty for his work and that he is under and house arrest.
