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2023-05
Philip Ball
This news piece in Nature reflects on recent developments in embryo research to point to the gap between the pace of scientific research and the abilities of regulatory institutions to keep up with new developments.
2023-03
Robin Lovell-Badge , David Baltimore , Françoise Baylis , Ewan Birney , Alta Charo , George Q. Daley , Javier Guzman , Daria Julkowska , Julie Makani , Chris McCabe , Luigi Naldini , Cor Oosterwijk , Lily Paemka , Michèle Ramsay , Elisa Reis , Haoyi Wang , Mayana Zatz
This statement was released by the organizing committee of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London in 2023. It continues the trend from the second summit statement of laying out a path to clinical applications of human genome editing.
2022-09
Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO)
In 2021, the Council of Europe determined that it was necessary to clarify the provisions of the Oviedo Convention pertaining to human genome editing.
2022-08
Hannah Devlin
Biological and medical research | Embryo research | Europe | Heritable genome editing | Journalism | Law | Somatic genome editing
This is one of two articles published on the same day in the Guardian that suggests an emerging strategy to modify the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.
2022-08
Hannah Devlin
Biological and medical research | Europe | Heritable genome editing | Journalism | Law | Somatic genome editing
This is one of two articles published on the same day in the Guardian that suggests an emerging strategy to modify the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.