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World Health Organization panel weighs in on CRISPR-babies debate

Advisory committee calls for a global registry of studies that involve editing the human genome.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) should create a global registry of studies that involve editing the human genome, and research funders and publishers should require scientists to participate in it, a group advising the WHO said on 19 March.

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Nature 567, 444-445 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00942-z

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  • Correction 20 March 2019: The story originally said that Margaret Hamburg is the foreign secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences. She is the foreign secretary of the US National Academy of Medicine.

  • Update 21 March 2019: Added comments from representatives of Cell Press, Science and Nature.

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