The U.S. must do some heavy lifting to prepare for heritable genome editing
Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on how to prepare for a future in which the technology is safe and effective enough to use in human reproduction.
The commission was created in response to the news almost two years ago that a scientist in China had edited the genomes of two babies when they were single-cell embryos. (It subsequently emerged that a third baby with an edited genome had been born.)
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