He Jiankui sparked outrage by deleting a gene linked to HIV in human embryos.
That would make Rebrikov the second known person to implant gene-edited human embryos.
While Russia has banned genetic engineering in the majority of cases, Rebrikov told Nature he is considering going ahead with his work before the government makes laws on implanting gene-edited embryos clear—as long as he's certain it's safe.Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov could become the second known person to implant gene-edited human embryos.he is working with a HIV center in Moscow to find HIV-positive women resistant to treatment to agree to take part in his research.
CCR5 encodes a protein that HIV uses to get inside human blood cells, and past research has shown those with a mutation on the gene are protected from HIV. The Δ32 mutation means carriers have two rather than one copy of the CCR5 gene.
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