In the face of safety risks, experts have tightened the reins on heritable genome editing—but haven’t ruled out using it someday.
, brandished signs urging “Never Again to Eugenics” and “NO HGM”. The group campaigns against what it sees as the scientific community’s lurch towards using gene editing for biological enhancement—to tweak genomes to give, say, higher intelligence or blue eyes. If this came to pass, it would be a slippery slope towards eugenics, the group argues.
After several days of experts chewing on the scientific, ethical, and governance issues associated with human genome editing, the summit’s organizing committee put out its. Heritable human genome editing—editing embryos that are then implanted to establish a pregnancy, which can pass on their edited DNA—“remains unacceptable at this time,” the committee concluded. “Public discussions and policy debates continue and are important for resolving whether this technology should be used.
This marks a shift in attitude since the close of the last summit, in 2018, during which Chinese scientist He Jiankui dropped a bombshell: He revealed that he had previously used Crispr to edit human embryos, resulting in the birth of three Crispr-edited babies—much to the horror of the summit’s attendees and the rest of the world. In its closing statement, the committee condemned He Jiankui’s premature actions, but at the same time iton germline genome editing—meaning, proceed with caution.
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