It was just a matter of time before Chinese Technocrat scientists would use CRISPR-edited genes on humans. Now they have opened Pandora’s Box and a biomedical race is certain to follow. China was the first nation to be run as a Technocracy. ⁃ TN Editor
A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique. On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered the modified cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer as part of a clinical trial at the West China Hospital, also in Chengdu.