Chinese scientist He Jiankui has recently rearranged a baby’s genetics to make the two twins immune to HIV. He chose HIV ( a disease that leads to AIDS) because China’s HIV rate has rose 14% in the second half of this year. This sounds like a deed with good intent, but many other researchers in his field are outraged because they don’t think that human genetics should be tampered with.
For more information: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a25305651/he-jiankui-crispr-genetic-editing-twins-aids-hiv/
This relates to engineering because CRISPR (a genetic editing tool) is a cool piece of tech. This is also considered BioMedical Engineering.
