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Stanford clears three faculty members of ‘CRISPR babies’ involvement

Stanford University cleared three faculty members of any misconduct in their interactions with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created "CRISPR babies" last year.
He Jiankui

Stanford University cleared three faculty members of any misconduct in their interactions with the Chinese scientist who created last year, the school announced on Tuesday evening. A review by a faculty member and an outside investigator concluded that they “were not participants in [He Jiankui’s] research regarding genome editing of human embryos for

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