With the development of technology and science go hand in hand CRISPR Gene-editing technology, which we know as In fact, a personalized cancer treatment has been carried out with CRISPR in recent months.

But CRISPR isn’t limited to just that. Even the embryo of an unborn baby can be gene-edited with CRISPR to make it smarter and blue-eyed. This is of course not yet applied in the scientific world for ethical reasons. Today is about this potential. an important statement came.

Gene editing in unborn babies is closed for now:

The Human Genome Editing Summit 2023, held in recent days, ended with a critical announcement for the scientific community. The Summit Organizing Committee discussed the use of CRISPR in infants. provisional ban issued a statement:

“Hereditary human genome editing (editing embryo genes) remains unacceptable today. Public debates and policy debates are ongoing, and these are important in deciding whether or not to use the technology.

Governance frameworks and ethical principles for responsible use of inherited human genome editing are lacking. Required safety and efficacy standards have not been met.”

One of the discussions that led to this decision was also featured at the event:

On the day the summit began, members of a group called “Stop Designer Babies” staged a protest in front of the summit center to stop editing the human gene. The group believes that if gene editing is accepted, the world will be transformed into a ””, which was first proposed by Plato.to eugenics He argued that he was on the right track.

The idea of ​​gene editing in embryos caused quite a stir when a Chinese scientist explained in 2018: