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Heritable Genome Editing: Is a Moratorium Needed?

Heritable Genome Editing: Is a Moratorium Needed? News & Analysis The JAMA Forum Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS; I. Glenn Cohen, JD If you don’t know where you are going, you Moratorium Critics out on early human embryos in vitro, espe- might wind up someplace else. Conspicuously absent from the calls for a cially on embryos that are not required for Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra moratorium were some of the leading lights reproduction and would otherwise be dis- of the genome editing field who have since carded.” Nobel laureate David Baltimore, registered their misgivings. For example, of the California Institute of Technology in rompted by the reported birth of Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, of the University Pasadena and chair of the organizing com- twins whose embryonic genomes of California, Berkeley, a towering figure in mittee of past International Summits on P may have been edited, an interna- the genome editing arena, supports “strict Human Genome Editing, views moratoria tional group of 18 distinguished scientists regulation that precludes use,” she told the as “draconian” and “antithetical to the goals and ethicists recently called for a voluntary health and medicine news site, STAT. “I pre- of science.” global moratorium on all “clinical uses of hu- fer this to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Heritable Genome Editing: Is a Moratorium Needed?

JAMA , Volume 322 (2) – Jul 9, 2019

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American Medical Association
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Copyright 2019 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
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0098-7484
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1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.2019.8977
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News & Analysis The JAMA Forum Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS; I. Glenn Cohen, JD If you don’t know where you are going, you Moratorium Critics out on early human embryos in vitro, espe- might wind up someplace else. Conspicuously absent from the calls for a cially on embryos that are not required for Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra moratorium were some of the leading lights reproduction and would otherwise be dis- of the genome editing field who have since carded.” Nobel laureate David Baltimore, registered their misgivings. For example, of the California Institute of Technology in rompted by the reported birth of Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, of the University Pasadena and chair of the organizing com- twins whose embryonic genomes of California, Berkeley, a towering figure in mittee of past International Summits on P may have been edited, an interna- the genome editing arena, supports “strict Human Genome Editing, views moratoria tional group of 18 distinguished scientists regulation that precludes use,” she told the as “draconian” and “antithetical to the goals and ethicists recently called for a voluntary health and medicine news site, STAT. “I pre- of science.” global moratorium on all “clinical uses of hu- fer this to

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Published: Jul 9, 2019

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