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“I told you to lay low, didn’t I?” said Xin Mao, the minister of the State Administration for Market Regulation.
He was visiting the Public Security Bureau to see He Jiankui, who had been detained.
“What’s going to happen to me now?” He Jiankui asked.
“It’s worse than you think. It’s all your fault, so who can you blame? Genetic modification alone is enough to get you in trouble, but you also blatantly disregarded clinical trial regulations, and you didn’t give the victims an explanation. Plus, the baby you created is about to die.”
Xin Mao clicked his tongue.
“The issue is genetically modified babies. You said it yourself at the GSC conference that it’s the dawn of a new era, didn’t you? What can you do when there’s a background like this behind a case that the entire world is watching?”
“I heard there was talk of the death penalty… Is it true?” He Jiankui asked in horror.
“It’s true. Nature is investigating and reviewing the case of organ transplants from executed prisoners. What do you think will happen if that blows up?” Xin Mao said. “Do you know what people are going to say? Their country sells the organs of executed prisoners and who knows what other unimaginably unethical things are going on?...
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