Six-Year-Old Girl Dies After Receiving Brain Gene-Editing Treatment Involving Virus Injections

Six-Year-Old Girl Dies After Receiving Brain Gene-Editing Treatment Involving Virus Injections

Neuroscientist Under Investigation After Child’s Death During Gene Editing Trial Qiu Zilong, a neuroscientist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is facing scrutiny following the death of a 6-year-old girl involved in a gene editing trial that he supervised. Reports indicate that the child received an experimental treatment involving the injection of numerous viruses carrying a […]