Cas9 in germline editing presents opportunities for genetic disease correction, alongside risks of off-target effects and ...

Hurlbut said the meeting would be akin to an unauthorized fourth edition of the major international conference series on human genome editing (Washington, DC, 2015; Hong Kong, 2018; London, 2023).

The fear that polygenic gene editing could be used for eugenics looms large among them, and is, in part, why no country currently allows genome editing in a human embryo, even for single variants.

Despite outrage over gene editing in China that affected the birth of twins, research is underway in the U.S. to assess the safety and effectiveness of CRISPR tools to edit genes in human embryos.

So my goal is we’re going to test the embryo gene editing in mice and monkeys, and in human nonviable embryos. Again, it’s nonviable embryos. There will be no more gene-edited babies.

W.H.O. Panel Demands a Registry for Human Gene Editing The panel, established after a Chinese experiment produced embryo-edited babies, said all human genome editing research should be listed in a ...

In 2015, three years after scientists discovered how to permanently edit the human genome, U.S. scientists issued a statement to halt applications of germline genome editing, a controversial type ...