By Ariel Fernandez As a former professor in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University I was a colleague of Michael W. Deem, the Ph. D. mentor of He Jiankui. During a recent interview by Science Transparency, I became acquainted with a defense of He Jiankui by Prof. George Church, a leading figure from Harvard and […]
The genetic editing of human embryos through a molecular biology manipulation known as CRISPR surely sent shock waves across the globe. Many felt that He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who carried out the experiments had opened Pandora’s box. Yet, as people had now some time to ponder over the events, the scientific establishment has […]
The picture shows the cover page of a doctoral dissertation, with Professors Ariel Fernandez and Michael W. Deem in the bioengineering thesis committee at Rice University. There was no genetic editing of human embryos at the time, just theory, bioinformatics, computational bioengineering and speculation. Michael W. Deem was also the doctoral advisor of He […]