National Academies on the Call for Moratorium on and International Governance of Heritable Gene Editing
/Statement on Call for Moratorium on and International Governance Framework for Clinical Uses of Heritable Genome Editing
“A commentary published in Nature calls for a moratorium on clinical uses of heritable human genome editing and the establishment of an international governance framework. (We responded to the commentary with a joint letter, which is an abbreviated version of this statement.) The call comes following claims by a scientist in China to have edited the genes of early embryos, in treatments that resulted in the birth of twins. The scientist’s work – revealed at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, jointly organized by our Academies, was condemned by the summit organizers and by much of the wider scientific community.”
