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The $800,000 Secret: A Child's Death in a Gene-Editing Trial and the Unraveling Cover-Up
A joint exposé by Science and Retraction Watch, published on July 24, 2026, revealed the concealed death of a six-year-old girl in China who underwent an experimental brain gene-editing treatment in 2025. Her parents reportedly paid over $800,000 for the therapy, which bypassed standard national regulatory review processes. The girl's death was omitted from a peer-reviewed paper in Nature detailing preclinical studies, compounding concerns about transparency and ethical oversight in the gene-editing trial.
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