NIH director says there’s work to do on regulating genome editing globally
“We do not ... have an international bioethics body that is capable of coming up with consensus guidelines that are then enforceable across the world,” the NIH director said.
WASHINGTON — The apparent birth this month of the first genetically modified babies is “a lesson in the potential for human hubris to overtake us,” Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, told STAT Thursday, but he said there is little U.S. officials can do to influence how China sanctions the rogue scientist who claims to have led the ethically dubious scientific breakthrough.
Collins said he was glad to see that Chinese authorities on Thursday , which they deem illegal, and said they were launching an
