- Chinese researcher He Jiankui released a YouTube video and web page claiming the birth of twin girls whose CCR5 gene was edited as single-cell embryos to confer HIV resistance, triggering global controversy.  
- The experiment was condemned by 122 Chinese scientists, the organizing committee of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, and multiple universities; He was reported to be on unpaid leave since February and under investigation.  
- Discussion referenced a 2015 “scientific-community agreement” to pause heritable germline editing, with participants predicting the Hong Kong summit would issue a formal moratorium.  
- Links circulated to He’s lab site (sustc-genome.org.cn), his startup Direct Genomics ($31 M Series A), and media coverage (AP, STAT, Nature, Technology Review).  
- Razib Khan and others debated the technical feasibility of raising IQ “several standard deviations” by editing <200 alleles, citing the 2014 paper “The genetics of intelligence” (arXiv:1408.3421).  
- Concerns were raised about equitable global access to CRISPR therapies, with Dana Carroll noting that complex treatments may never reach high-risk regions in Africa and Asia.  
- George Church was quoted as having reviewed the Shenzhen data, while Feng Zhang and David Baltimore publicly called for a moratorium on clinical germline editing.  
- Side topics included open-sourcing personal genomes, Islamic bioethical perspectives on bodily autonomy, and speculation about future editing of high-altitude adaptation genes in Tibetan populations.  
- Live links to the summit webcast (nationalacademies.org and livestream.com) and DIY wiki transcripts (diyhpl.us) were shared for real-time follow-up.