Ethics standards developed for research on humans

Medical experts and authorities in South China will compile a list of ethics regulations for human biomedical studies, a move that comes on the heels of strong condemnation of a Chinese researcher who claimed to have made the world's first genetically edited babies.

A meeting to discuss new regulations was held in Guangdong province by Shenzhen PKU-HKUST Medical Center on Tuesday. The center is a research institution established by the Shenzhen government, Peking University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The Health and Family Planning Commission of Shenzhen told China Daily that drawing up such regulations was already in the annual plan for this year and has "no relation with other events".