| 1 | Mar 11, '25 | Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress | 262× | 13.7M | 55k | 4.5k | 7.1k |
| 2 | Mar 6, '25 | Human will no longer be controlled by Darwin's evolution. | 189× | 9.8M | 17k | 1.3k | 1.9k |
| 3 | Feb 24, '25 | Tinkering with human embryos will certainly be worth the risk. | 187× | 9.7M | 19k | 1.5k | 2.2k |
| 4 | Apr 15, '25 | Stop asking for cat girls. I'm trying to cure disease. | 105× | 5.5M | 208k | 16k | 10k |
| 5 | Mar 26, '25 | The 2018 world-first gene edited baby was the single most important science achievement of China. | 89.6× | 4.7M | 6.2k | 247 | 714 |
| 6 | Mar 17, '25 | I will not do life extension or immortality research secretly for billionaires. | 61× | 3.2M | 76k | 3.9k | 3.2k |
| 7 | Mar 25, '25 | "Survival of the fittest" is unfair for the people born with genetic disadvantages, no one should be left behind. | 48.6× | 2.5M | 33k | 2.1k | 2k |
| 8 | Mar 14, '25 | Woolly mice is bioweapon. | 43.6× | 2.3M | 36k | 2.4k | 2k |
| 9 | Apr 17, '25 | I literally went to prison for this shit. | 37.2× | 1.9M | 12k | 846 | 624 |
| 10 | Apr 18, '25 | Married @CathyTie | 32.1× | 1.7M | 14k | 370 | 822 |
| 11 | Dec 18, '24 | Gene editing in human embryo is safe to proceed now. | 26.6× | 1.4M | 10k | 604 | 1.3k |
| 12 | Oct 23, '24 | I will apologize for the gene edited baby experiment, only if their parents have requested it. However, they are happy with the results now. | 26.1× | 1.4M | 7.1k | 439 | 1.8k |
| 13 | May 18, '25 | This is probably my last post in twitter. If Chinese government does not allow my wife to come to Beijing living with me, I will leave China and work in USA. | 23× | 1.2M | 9.9k | 316 | 704 |
| 14 | Aug 26, '25 | Welcome Nina, a new intern student. | 21.5× | 1.1M | 9.1k | 190 | 654 |
| 15 | Mar 19, '25 | I hope people remember me as "Chinese Darwin" in 50 years. | 20.6× | 1.1M | 26k | 1.3k | 1.1k |
| 16 | Dec 23, '24 | My lab in Beijing will become the world center of gene editing. | 20× | 1M | 5.3k | 243 | 448 |
| 17 | Sep 13, '25 | My mother has Alzheimer's, she is 67 years old, she does not know me anymore. I could not help my mother, but I will guarantee that my future children will be free of Alzheimer's. | 19.4× | 1M | 31k | 1.1k | 1.6k |
| 18 | Sep 18, '24 | This afternoon, I went to the parking lot after working. When I was about to get into my car, an unidentified, strong young man quickly approached me and ask me one question “Are y | 19.3× | 1M | 5.2k | 257 | 1.1k |
| 19 | Apr 16, '25 | Good morning bitches. How many embryos have you gene edited today? | 18.9× | 986k | 20k | 1.7k | 1.1k |
| 20 | Mar 10, '25 | Transplanting pig organs into people will become routine one day. | 18.9× | 983k | 11k | 691 | 569 |
| 21 | May 18, '25 | I will go to US Embassy to renew my US green card now. | 18.5× | 966k | 9.4k | 261 | 548 |
| 22 | Apr 15, '25 | Meow >:) | 18.2× | 951k | 14k | 1.4k | 562 |
| 23 | Apr 8, '25 | Dire wolf is bioweapon. | 18.2× | 946k | 24k | 1.5k | 842 |
| 24 | Mar 23, '25 | Every pioneer or prophet must suffer | 16.9× | 883k | 22k | 2.2k | 1.3k |
| 25 | Apr 15, '25 | It's time for some unhinged tweets. | 14.8× | 772k | 11k | 557 | 379 |
| 26 | Apr 6, '25 | Making super soldiers by gene editing should be permanently banned. | 14.7× | 766k | 15k | 753 | 566 |
| 27 | Mar 16, '25 | Embryo gene editing should be free for all citizens. | 14.6× | 760k | 14k | 757 | 711 |
| 28 | Apr 22, '25 | The future of China-US relations will rely solely on biotech, and @CathyTie 's knowledge of medical genetics | 14.3× | 744k | 4k | 116 | 304 |
| 29 | Feb 22, '25 | I am willing to give an academic lecture at the university, on the condition that they provide two business class air tickets, five-star hotel accommodation, and a generous lecture | 13.8× | 720k | 4.3k | 218 | 387 |
| 30 | Mar 3, '25 | 13 years and $10B wasted, George Church, Jennifer Doudna, and Feng Zhang promised to change the world with CRISPR, but delivered nothing to help patients. | 13.1× | 685k | 4.1k | 163 | 694 |
| 31 | Mar 31, '25 | I do not know Elon Musk | 13× | 680k | 25k | 1.4k | 608 |
| 32 | Mar 26, '25 | Cloning a human body for organ harvesting is cruel. | 12.9× | 674k | 19k | 775 | 686 |
| 33 | Mar 28, '25 | I will conduct human embryo gene editing trial in South Africa. | 12.8× | 669k | 10k | 446 | 520 |
| 34 | Nov 13, '24 | My new lab in Beijing. | 12.7× | 662k | 4k | 129 | 271 |
| 35 | Apr 17, '25 | Get in luddite, we're going gene editing | 12.1× | 630k | 16k | 1k | 804 |
| 36 | May 24, '25 | Family first, country the second. | 12× | 624k | 7.3k | 200 | 382 |
| 37 | Feb 28, '25 | I will not give a lecture in Harvard university for free. | 11.5× | 597k | 8k | 407 | 542 |
| 38 | Mar 13, '25 | I will start to eradicate Alzheimer's disease in two years. | 11.3× | 587k | 8.2k | 399 | 1.2k |
| 39 | Oct 18, '24 | My new lab in Beijing. | 11.2× | 581k | 2.8k | 100 | 225 |
| 40 | Apr 15, '25 | Before you talk to me, ask yourself: would Van Gogh have wanted to hear the opinion of someone who's never created a masterpiece? | 11.1× | 578k | 11k | 984 | 763 |
| 41 | Apr 3, '25 | I will start a research lab in Austin, Texas. | 11.1× | 577k | 9.4k | 346 | 329 |
| 42 | Mar 29, '25 | They are jealous of my achievement. | 10.9× | 570k | 16k | 1.1k | 681 |
| 43 | Oct 21, '25 | Silicon Valley's race on designer babies for enhanced intelligence is Nazi eugenics experiment. | 10.8× | 561k | 4k | 302 | 249 |
| 44 | Dec 9, '24 | Finally, we have HIV vaccine now, it is the CCR5 gene editing before birth. | 10.2× | 534k | 4.6k | 309 | 675 |
| 45 | Mar 29, '25 | I want to be the leader of gene editing for the whole world | 10.1× | 525k | 6.4k | 280 | 191 |
| 46 | Nov 30, '24 | I am not interested in biological weapons. | 10× | 523k | 3k | 251 | 273 |
| 47 | Apr 10, '25 | I was born in a rural village | 10.0× | 520k | 11k | 530 | 352 |
| 48 | May 18, '25 | Chinese government denied my wife @CathyTie entrying China, it is a big mistake! My wife is leaving from Los Angeles to Beijing to reunion with me, and is now waiting in airport fo | 9.8× | 512k | 3.2k | 87 | 254 |
| 49 | Apr 16, '25 | Some random journalist wanted proof of life. Yes it's me tf. GTFO no more questions | 9.0× | 471k | 6.9k | 240 | 410 |
| 50 | Apr 10, '25 | Gene modified animals should not be released into the wild. | 8.5× | 445k | 6.3k | 257 | 151 |
| 51 | May 10, '25 | Learning CCP history. | 8.4× | 437k | 5.9k | 226 | 334 |
| 52 | May 16, '25 | It is double standard! | 8.3× | 431k | 3.9k | 195 | 292 |
| 53 | Apr 17, '25 | Want to fund my research? My memecoin pre-sale wallet address is 0x19go-find-god42069xD | 7.8× | 409k | 3.5k | 131 | 187 |
| 54 | May 27, '25 | View post on X | 7.8× | 407k | 5.7k | 204 | 298 |
| 55 | Dec 21, '24 | In 20 years, gene editing in human embryos will be as popular as iPhone | 7.7× | 403k | 3.3k | 292 | 356 |
| 56 | Apr 15, '25 | Ayo @joeroganhq pull up to Beijing if you want to talk face to face big boi. Bring your buddy Ben too | 7.7× | 402k | 8k | 328 | 334 |
| 57 | Apr 15, '25 | Gene editing should never be used for cosmetic, military or performance enhancing use cases. | 7.7× | 401k | 7.5k | 280 | 272 |
| 58 | Jul 24, '25 | Most research published in Science or Nature journals are not trustable | 7.6× | 395k | 2.5k | 136 | 173 |
| 59 | Mar 30, '25 | I will not give lectures in any ethics class, I only give lectures in serious science conference. | 7.3× | 382k | 11k | 602 | 512 |
| 60 | Mar 30, '25 | I received 183 applications for summer internships. | 7.1× | 371k | 8.5k | 231 | 303 |
| 61 | Dec 20, '24 | I love Austin, Texas. | 7.0× | 363k | 3.1k | 198 | 178 |
| 62 | Oct 29, '25 | By modifying 10 genes in the embryo stage, the baby born will be free of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and HIV. | 6.8× | 356k | 2.8k | 251 | 364 |
| 63 | Apr 15, '25 | My favourite X-Men is the Wolverine. | 6.8× | 355k | 11k | 742 | 353 |
| 64 | Jul 1, '25 | I will destroy the pharmaceutical industry. | 6.6× | 346k | 4.3k | 423 | 216 |
| 65 | Mar 20, '25 | In two years, British, Japan, and Korea will make germline gene editing legal. | 6.5× | 341k | 7k | 261 | 377 |
| 66 | Apr 9, '25 | My lab in Beijing is not working on government supported 'super babies'. | 6.4× | 335k | 8.2k | 370 | 274 |
| 67 | Apr 17, '25 | I want 所有的烟。 | 6.4× | 334k | 3k | 170 | 124 |
| 68 | Mar 24, '25 | Sci-fi movies are misleading people | 6.3× | 327k | 7.7k | 401 | 245 |
| 69 | Apr 11, '25 | Oppenheimer is not my role model. | 6.2× | 325k | 12k | 664 | 346 |
| 70 | Apr 1, '25 | The world’s first gene-edited baby immune to AIDS, means that China has achieved a historic breakthrough in gene-editing technology. | 6.2× | 323k | 7.5k | 353 | 374 |
| 71 | Feb 19, '25 | Embryo gene editing can prevent cancer. By increasing the DNA repairing capacity by 100 fold, our children will no longer have any gene mutation, therefore permanently eradicate ca | 5.8× | 301k | 2.5k | 194 | 394 |
| 72 | Apr 15, '25 | Colossal may be worth $10B+ and have an expensive PR team, but I edited human embryos and my tweets get more views. We are not the same. | 5.3× | 278k | 6.4k | 267 | 218 |
| 73 | Nov 17, '24 | Gene editing therapy before birth will be priced at a few thousands of dollars, affordable to most families. | ⚡ 5.3× | 13.9M | 9.6k | 928 | 1.7k |
| 74 | Apr 7, '25 | Relaxing ethics will help a country to win tech dominance. | 5.1× | 265k | 6.2k | 320 | 296 |
| 75 | May 25, '25 | The world owes me a Nobel prize. | 5.1× | 265k | 3.9k | 149 | 108 |
| 76 | Apr 16, '25 | The media is run by luddites with worse mimetic syndrome than bioethicists. | 5.0× | 262k | 3.3k | 155 | 166 |
| 77 | Mar 27, '25 | My success in science is mostly attributed to the environment of China that encourages "world-leading" scientific breakthroughs. | 4.7× | 245k | 5.1k | 246 | 202 |
| 78 | Jul 26, '25 | I was accused of a crime no one in history had ever committed. | 4.6× | 241k | 4.1k | 273 | 235 |
| 79 | Sep 19, '25 | Gene-enhanced super horses should be allowed in sport of horse racing. | 4.5× | 237k | 3.2k | 194 | 132 |
| 80 | Mar 24, '25 | Health is the universal human right | 4.5× | 235k | 7.1k | 374 | 242 |
| 81 | Apr 15, '25 | @cremieuxrecueil I don't want your funding anyways if your name is Cremeieueiux. | 4.1× | 215k | 9.6k | 78 | 86 |
| 82 | Apr 18, '25 | Gene editing should never be used in ways that could infringe on the privacy and sovereignty of personal genetic data. | 3.9× | 201k | 2.7k | 83 | 102 |
| 83 | Apr 15, '25 | CCR5 knockout to prevent HIV is old news. Alzheimers, Hypercholestrolemia, and Cancer is next. | 3.8× | 200k | 2.6k | 88 | 93 |
| 84 | Nov 2, '25 | I, the Oppenheimer in China | 3.8× | 199k | 2.7k | 186 | 158 |
| 85 | May 22, '25 | I will conduct human embryo gene editing research. Let's terminate Cancer! Let's terminate Alzheimer's! Let's terminate AIDS! | 3.7× | 192k | 3.4k | 188 | 164 |
| 86 | Sep 30, '25 | Elon Musk’ starship will never work. | 3.6× | 190k | 3.7k | 223 | 142 |
| 87 | May 23, '25 | This ring is a symbol of love, a symbol of gene science. | 3.6× | 190k | 3.6k | 133 | 254 |
| 88 | Apr 9, '25 | I will send two of my colleagues to Austin lab. | 3.6× | 187k | 4.4k | 111 | 100 |
| 89 | Apr 13, '25 | Emerging biotechnology, coupled with artificial intelligence, will lead a new industrial revolution. | 3.5× | 183k | 2.6k | 165 | 126 |
| 90 | Apr 25, '25 | Gene editing should be used for the prevention and eradication of short term (HIV) or long term (Alzheimer’s, Cancer) fatal and painful diseases. | 3.4× | 180k | 3.1k | 174 | 111 |
| 91 | Jul 3, '25 | I deserve a professorship at an Ivy League university. | 3.4× | 176k | 2.8k | 106 | 107 |
| 92 | Apr 12, '25 | Colossal Biosciences definition of species is dangerous and damaging | 3.1× | 164k | 2.6k | 148 | 106 |
| 93 | Jul 10, '25 | A scientist should pursue fame, not fortune. | 3.1× | 161k | 3k | 131 | 134 |
| 94 | Aug 18, '25 | I actually like the title "Chinese Frankenstein" | 2.9× | 149k | 3k | 224 | 146 |
| 95 | Jun 15, '25 | I am no longer a friend of the scientific community, but a public enemy | 2.9× | 149k | 3.3k | 276 | 182 |
| 96 | Jul 25, '25 | 3 years in jail, millions in fines, that's worth a Nobel Prize. | 2.8× | 146k | 3.1k | 145 | 102 |
| 97 | Jun 6, '25 | I am not interested in investment from tech bros in Silicon Valley. All they want is immortality. | 2.8× | 146k | 2.8k | 140 | 160 |
| 98 | Sep 5, '25 | We should restrict the use of monkey in medicine experiment. | 2.4× | 124k | 3.1k | 194 | 124 |
| 99 | Jun 11, '25 | I will make a HIV vaccine for every future child. | 1.9× | 100k | 2.7k | 98 | 77 |
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