Global Observatory
for Genome Editing
Thank you for joining us in Cambridge and online for the May 2025 International Summit. Read the statement, view the proceedings, and learn more on the Summit site:
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Genome editing raises fundamental questions about the dignity and integrity of human life.
Our mission
Resources
A curated collection of work centrally related to genome editing and other technologies bearing on the human future.
Perspectives
Commentaries and research illuminating diverse approaches to governing technologies that could alter the meaning of being human.
Convenings
Convenings organized by the Observatory to promote border-crossing exchanges on science, technology, and the human future.
Recent News
Taking responsibility: Asilomar and its legacy
Fifty years ago, a group of scientists paused work in their labs to discuss the risks of a dawning biotechnology revolution. On this anniversary, what can we learn by reflecting on the legacy of the 1975 Asilomar conference and the relations it modelled between science in society?
Global Observatory mentioned in Nature news
May 10, 2023In a recent article focusing on the regulatory challenges posed by new development in embryo research, the Global Observatory is mentioned as one effort rethinking the relationship between regulatory limits and the pace of scientific research.
Statement from the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing
March 8, 2023 The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was held from March 6-8, 2023 in London. At the end of the event, the Planning Committee shared a statement offering their conclusions.
Featured Convening
On May 21-23, 2025, the Global Observatory for Genome Editing will host an international summit to complement the three International Summits on Human Genome Editing held in 2015, 2018, and 2023.
Featured Collection
In May 2025, The Global Observatory convened an International Summit on Genome Editing. This collection contains perspectives written specifically for the meeting and collected in special edition of The CRISPR Journal.