On July 27, 2026, regarding the death of a 6-year-old girl at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital after receiving experimental gene-editing treatment, staff from the Yangpu District Health Commission of Shanghai told media that relevant departments had stepped in to investigate.
On July 26, 2026, the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University issued a statement saying that a special task force had been set up to conduct a comprehensive investigation into reports about gene-editing clinical research at Xinhua Hospital, and that action would be taken seriously based on the results.
On July 23, 2026, Science and Retraction Watch jointly disclosed that a 6-year-old girl died in March 2025 after undergoing a gene editing trial at Xinhua Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and the paper published by the team afterward made no mention of this.
Science magazine revealed in July 2026 that in March 2025 a 6-year-old girl received gene editing treatment at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital and died of a severe immune response 7 days after the virus was injected into her cerebrospinal fluid.