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There were two conditions under which He Jiankui’s human experiment could be excused. One was that he didn’t know the side effects of modifying CCR5 in an embryo, which was almost certain. CCR5 became famous for its role as the infection route of HIV, and there were already people who had natural mutations in CCR5. He Jiankui probably thought it was a relatively safe target as there were so many people born with that mutation. Plus, A-Bio was already treating AIDS through CCR5 manipulation, though it wasn’t in developing embryos.
The other condition was that the CCR5 blockers on the market didn’t work, meaning the other option for these genetically engineered babies was difficult.
‘I didn’t really know this either.’
Young-Joon opened the documents that Park Joo-Hyuk sent him in his office. There were a total of thirty-three documents related to the lawsuit.
This case was about the clinical trials of a treatment called Glaxoviroc, which was once sold by a Taiwanese pharmaceutical company called Atmox. It was believed that the HIV would not be transmitted from the mother to...
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