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The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the US National Academies of Medicine and Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society was published on 3 September.

We – jointly with the French and German ethics councils – call on governments and stakeholders around the world to put ethical considerations at the core of any future discussion and of the development of global governance of heritable genome editing.

From time to time I have posted updates on this blog about the evolving international discussion surrounding human heritable genome editing…

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a call for evidence to inform its inquiry into the us…

A lot has happened since we published our report Genome editing and human reproduction: social and …

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has submitted a response to the House of Commons Science and Techn…

Yesterday in an article in Nature, a group of scientists and ethicists from seven countries called f…

Today the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published their ‘My Science Inquiry’…

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has been invited to pitch an inquiry on commercial genomics to the…

The Council has begun a new in-depth inquiry on the ethical issues raised by the use of genome editi…