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He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered.

'Disrupted medical order': Chinese scientist jailed over gene-edited babies

He Jiankui sparked an ethical crisis when he claimed to have edited the DNA of three human embryos. Now he has been fined and jailed by a Chinese court.

  • Carolyn Y Johnson

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Ali Nazari receives a commendation from Swinburne University in 2017

Scientist leaves Swinburne after journals retract 30 studies over plagiarism claims

A Melbourne scientist has left his university after it started looking into allegations he had copied and republished the same research over and over again.

  • Liam Mannix