Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Human Genome That Could Be Inherited - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/science/crispr-cas9-human-genome-editing-moratorium.html
An international group of scientists meeting in Washington called on Thursday for what would, in effect, be a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome.
The group said it would be “irresponsible to proceed” until the risks could be better assessed and until there was “broad societal consensus about the appropriateness” of any proposed change. The group also held open the possibility for such work to proceed in the future by saying that as knowledge advances, the issue of making permanent changes to the human genome “should be revisited on a regular basis.”