The Observatory's Directors guest-edited the November 2020 issue of the journal Science, Technology, & Human Values. This collection of essays, “Constitutionalism at the nexus of life and law,” explores how revolutions in notions of biological life are eliciting correspondingly revolutionary imaginations of how life should be governed.
In The CRISPR Journal, the Observatory's Directors call for the need for more reflection and diverse perspectives in setting the agenda for the democratic global governance of genome editing.
The Observatory's Directors led the formulation of a pair of consensus statements, one on conceptual challenges and this one on institutional design, signed by nearly all of the participants in the Editorial Aspirations meeting and published in Trends in Biotechnology in 2018.
The Observatory's Directors led the formulation of a pair of consensus statements, this one on conceptual challenges and the other on institutional design, signed by nearly all of the participants in the Editorial Aspirations meeting and published in Trends in Biotechnology in 2018.
The Observatory initiative grew out of a meeting entitled Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology held at Harvard in April, 2017.
In Issues in Science and Technology, the Observatory's Directors argue that the precedent of expert self-governance set by Asilomar is not sufficient for the necessary public engagement and deliberation around genome editing technologies.