An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch reveals that a 6-year-old girl died during a privately funded gene-editing clinical trial in China costing her family over $800,000. Despite the medical team publishing preclinical work in Nature, her death was never reported publicly — raising serious questions about research transparency, clinical trial reporting standards, and the responsibilities of journals when publishing preclinical work that underpins unregulated trials.

Source: Retraction Watch