Shenzhen Convention

Shenzhen Convention

An article about a scientist's ethics violation of the Shenzhen Convention

The Shenzhen Convention was an international agreement on Earth in the 21st century that regulated the conduct of Human genetic research.

In 2024, Doctor Adam Soong was found to have violated the Shenzhen Convention by conducting illegal genetic experiments on veterans from Spearhead Operations, a private military organization. As a result, he lost his license and funding, and was banned from further research in the field. (PIC: "Fly Me to the Moon")

The name "Shenzhen Convention" is likely to be a reference to the He Jiankui affair, the first known real-life instance of genome editing in Humans, which occured in 2018 when He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, used CRISPR–Cas9 to edit the genomes of three then-unborn children in an attempt to make them resistant to Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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