2015

During Napa conference, which, like the Asilomar conference of 1975, advocated “a path forward rather than putting on the brakes”), word reached attendees of experiments on non-viable human embryos underway in China.” In the end, attendees agreed that while use of CRISPR tools for non-inheritable gene editing was a good thing, called for a temporary halt on germline editing in humans at least until the safety and social issues could be further understood” (Issacson, 288).