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Human Gene Editing Summit at the US National Academy of Sciences

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The International Summit on Human Gene Editing, which took place 1-3 December 2015 in Washington, DC., has published a Summit Statement ...

The text focuses on 4 conclusions which have been drawn from the meeting and which touch upon questions of basic and preclinical research, clinical use and the need for establishing an ongoing forum on questions of human gene editing.

Follow the link HERE to read more about the event.

The presidents of the co-hosting academies, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society, UK, also issued a commentary in response to the statement.