The creator of the CRISPR Babies has been released from a Chinese prison | MIT Technology Review

He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom.

Following international condemnation of the experiment, He was placed under home arrest and then detained. In December 2019, he was convicted by a Chinese court, which said the researcher had “deliberately violated” medical regulations and had “rashly applied gene editing technology to human assisted reproductive medicine.” His release from prison was confirmed by people familiar with the situation and He answered his mobile phone when contacted early today. “It’s not convenient to talk right now,” he said before hanging up. He’s team from the Southern University of Science and Technology…

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