{"id":155179,"date":"2026-07-26T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155179"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:30:13","slug":"chinese-scientist-faces-probe-after-girl-6-dies-following-experimental-gene-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155179","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist faces probe after girl, 6, dies \u2018following experimental gene therapy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading Chinese scientist is under investigation by his university after a six-year-old girl reportedly died following experimental gene-editing therapy.<br \/>\nThe girl, named Mei, died days after receiving a treatment designed to correct a genetic mutation affecting her neurodevelopment in March last year, according to a report published by Science following a joint investigation with Retraction Watch, a non-profit organisation that monitors retracted research.<br \/>\nHer parents said she had suffered a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3361898\/chinese-scientist-faces-probe-after-girl-6-dies-following-experimental-gene-therapy?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading Chinese scientist is under investigation by his university after a six-year-old girl reportedly died following experimental gene-editing therapy. The girl, named Mei,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}