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Breaking news: Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine will launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously undisclosed death last year of a 6-year-old girl who had received an experimental gene therapy from one of its scientists. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4yJXPoU

Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death
More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”

"In a June response to an email from the parents noting their child’s death and other concerns, Nature’s deputy editor, Victoria Aranda, wrote that the ethical issues they raised “fall outside our purview in terms of data integrity” and that the matter should be handled by the university."

Science Magazine@science.org · 2w ago

Exclusive: A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability. https://scim.ag/3RuHuDB