Heritable Genome Editing Not Yet Ready to Be Tried Safely and Effectively in Humans – Initial Clinical Uses, If Permitted, Should Be Limited to Serious Single-Gene Diseases

Cortez Deacetis

Human embryos whose genomes have been edited must not be utilized to produce a being pregnant until eventually it is proven that precise genomic changes can be made reliably with out introducing undesired changes — a criterion that has not but been satisfied by any genome modifying technology, states a new report by an international fee of the U.S. Countrywide Academy of Medicine, U.S. Countrywide Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Culture.

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Disaster Resources from the National Academies

As Hurricane Laura bears down on parts of Louisiana and Texas, officers are dealing with the challenge of evacuating and sheltering persons in the center of a pandemic. A current workshop examined how disaster preparedness teams have to adapt to new realities as hurricanes, wildfires, and other excessive climate situations […]