• He Jiankui speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong last fall. On Tuesday, Stanford University said it had cleared three faculty members of any wrongdoing in dealings with He, who claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. | AP
    He Jiankui speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong last fall. On Tuesday, Stanford University said it had cleared three faculty members of any wrongdoing in dealings with He, who claims to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies. | AP

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BEIJING – China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s top legislature, will consider tougher rules on research involving human genes and embryos, the first such move since a Chinese scientist sparked controversy last year by announcing he had created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies.

He Jiankui, associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, attracted condemnation from the global scientific community when he said he had used a technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the embryonic genes of twin girls born in November.

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