In early 2015, American biochemist Jennifer Doudna organized an effort calling for a moratorium on human genome editing. In April that year, she and her colleagues presented a framework for immediate actions to protect human embryo genomes from modification. Their precautions responded to safety questions and ethical concerns, including whether gene-editing technology should be used to change non-disease traits such as intelligence. That same month, Chinese scientists reported altering human embryo genomes with CRISPR-Cas9.
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