Researcher reveals more details on human embryo gene editing

Regarding He’s research, Baltimore said it was not a transparent process. Baltimore said he believed that the diseases the summit participants had heard about in discussions earlier Wednesday morning were much more pressing than providing one person some protection against HIV infection.

In Baltimore’s view, the occurrence of He’s case has been a failure of self-regulation by the scientific community because of lack of transparency.

The summit's organizing committee will issue a statement on the matter on Thursday, Baltimore said.