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2020
J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Global Observatory Co-Director Ben Hurlbut uses the etymology of governance—from an ancient Greek nautical term meaning “to steer the ship”—to discuss the course of human germline genome editing.
2019-11
Jennifer Doudna
In this brief opinion piece, one of CRISPR/Cas9’s lead developers, Jennifer Doudna, marks the one-year anniversary of the reveal of He Jiankui’s experiments.
2019-10
Sheila Jasanoff , J. Benjamin Hurlbut , Krishanu Saha
An international regulatory commission convened by scientific academies is a premature and problematic approach to governing human germline genome editing.
2019-07
Eli Y. Adashi , I. Glenn Cohen
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, biomedical scientist Eli Adashi and legal scholar Glenn Cohen detail some of the arguments against moratoria from the perspective of leading genome editing scientists.
2019-03
Victor J. Dzau , Marcia McNutt , Venki Ramakrishnan
Alongside Lander et al.’s call for a voluntary moratorium on human germline genome editing, the leaders of three advisory bodies—the US National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and the UK’s Royal Academy—voiced their support.