Among the measures, it appears that only that entity will give its approval to genetic studies with high technical risk. Those who violate the provisions will face a lifelong prohibition to develop biomedical research and the payment of heavy fines.

Those institutions involved in some way with the offenders will be closed.

The government is considering eliminating any possibility of repeating cases in the country such as the scientist He Jiankui, who violated the laws, evaded supervision, used false documents and illegally recruited volunteers to carry out the controversial trial by which two babies were born genetically modified.

According to the preliminary results of a survey, I raised funds and also organized the study on its own since June 2016 and with the support of national and foreign colleagues.

Between March 2017 and November 2018, they summoned eight couples made up of HIV-positive men and healthy women, achieving two in vitro pregnancies and the birth of the Lulu and Nana twins.

The babies came to the world last November after using the Crispr-Cas9 technique to alter their DNA and make them invulnerable to the virus that causes AIDS.

That procedure is also known as 'genetic scissors,' and it allows you to remove and replace unwanted parts of the genome in the same way that a computer error is corrected.

Both He Jiankui and the people and institutions involved in the act will receive sanctions in accordance with China's regulations and their crimes will be transferred to justice.

Meanwhile, the girls, their mother, and the other volunteer who is still pregnant will continue under medical supervision to observe their evolution.

When He announced last year the birth of the twins, he received a rejection by the scientific community inside and outside China.

Instead of flattery, against him and his team he advanced a wave of condemnation that added multiple voices concerned about the violation of laws, the moral, ethical and technical protocols of science, plus the biological risks for Lulu and Nana, and their future offspring.(Prensa Latina)