Reactions to the National Academies/Royal Society Report on <i>Heritable Human Genome Editing</i>
Misha Angrist, Rodolphe Barrangou, Françoise Βaylis, Carolyn Brokowski, Gaétan Burgio, Arthur L. Caplan, Carolyn Riley Chapman, George M. Church, Robert Cook‐Deegan, Bryan Cwik, Jennifer A. Doudna, John H. Evans, Henry T. Greely, Laura Hercher, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Richard O. Hynes, Tetsuya Ishii, Samira Kiani, LaTasha Hoskins Lee, Guillaume Levrier, David R. Liu, Jeantine E. Lunshof, Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Debra Mathews, Eric M. Meslin, Peter H.R. Mills, Lluı́s Montoliu, Kiran Musunuru, Dianne Nicol, Helen C. O’Neill, Ren-Zong Qiu, Robert Ranisch, Jacob S. Sherkow, Sheetal Soni, Sharon F. Terry, Eric J. Topol, Robert Williamson, Feng Zhang, Kevin Davies
Abstract
was published. The report offers a translational pathway for the limited approval of germline editing under limited circumstances and assuming various criteria have been met. In this perspective, some three dozen experts from the fields of genome editing, medicine, bioethics, law, and related fields offer their candid reactions to the National Academies/Royal Society report, highlighting areas of support, omissions, disagreements, and priorities moving forward.