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Scientists were not sure if it's safe to use Crispr on people, the chinese tried it and now we know that someone has tried it. - that's about all of the info in the article

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> the chinese tried it

"The chinese", really? That was one single rogue Chinese scientist.

> The first trial of CRISPR in humans took place in China in 2016, when Lu You, a physician at Sichuan University, put gene-edited cells into a lung cancer patient. Since then, other Chinese trials have moved forward, though not much is known about them.

> Last year Chinese researcher He Jiankui caused a global outcry ...

Ethics aside, it’s definitely more than one Chinese scientist working in this area.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/despite-controver...

"Chinese scientists have published the first report in a scientific journal of an attempt to use CRISPR-edited cells in a patient--a 27-year-old man who is HIV-positive." is the third sentence of the article.

Perhaps the title should have been "Two rogue scientists are checking out CRISPR"

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