Searching for Safeguards on Human Gene Editing
January 26, 2019
Scientific institutions in the United States and elsewhere are trying to devise global safeguards regarding the use of new gene-editing technology in humans, partly in response to the unexpected announcement by a scientist in China that he had created the first genetically edited babies. Important groundwork for the latest policy discussions was laid during an international summit on the emerging gene-editing tools, held in December 2015, and a number of key participants summarized their presentations in a special section of Issues.