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Duanqing Pei1, David W Beier2, Ephrat Levy-Lahad3
1Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China; National Academies of Sciences and Medicine Consensus Study Committee on Human Genome Editing; Organizing Committee for the International Summit on Human Gene Editing.
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A recent National Academies report articulates a path forward for research, ethics, and governance of clinical applications involving genome editing. In light of recent human embryo editing developments, scientists and stakeholders from all nations should cooperate to take advantage of this historic opportunity for medicine and also basic human biology.
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