Make People Better is a 2022 documentary film about the use of genetic engineering (called CRISPR gene editing) to enhance two twins girls to be immune to HIV.
Featured experts included Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine of MIT Technology Review, who first discovered and revealed the secret experiment,[2] and Benjamin Hurlbut, a bioethicist at the Arizona State University.
[6][7] Samira Kiani was a researcher on CRISPR gene editing at Arizona State University and teamed up with Cody Sheehy of the Rhumbline Media to make a documentary film on the revolutionary technique.
[8][9] They first approached expert in the field, George Church at Harvard University, who was popularly known as the "Founding Father of Genomics",[10][11] and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine of MIT Technology Review, who had been well-versed in the development of the technique.
They further learned from Kiani's former acquaintance Ryan Farrell who was working as a public relations specialist to He Jiankui, associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology(SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, that He was running a human germline-editing experiment.
[22] Although the People's Daily announced the experimental result as "a historical breakthrough in the application of gene editing technology for disease prevention,"[23] the news was met with criticisms from scientists.
[23] He's university, local authorities, and the Chinese government made a series of investigations, and He was found guilty of violating academic ethics and national laws on the use of human embryos.
[3] Christopher Cross on Tilt said that the documentary is a narrow-sighted view as the case is not just for scientists, and argues that Sheehy "ignores some of the most glaring facets of a hugely impactful breakthrough.