Researchers in China believe that we need to do more to protect the children who have been born with edited genomes, and propose building a facility to care for and study them.
A professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a bioethicist at the University of Science and Technology have written a proposal about how to care for babies with genes that cause diseases.
The paper claims that there could have been errors during the editing process. The authors believe that the children's genomes should be analyzed for anomalies.
The kids in question were from the embryo. The researcher who edited the embryos was imprisoned. He is set to be released in the coming months, according to the journal.
The proposal's authors believe that regular genome monitoring is the best way to ensure the safety of the children.
The possibility that the children's genes are unaffected is our wish.
Their proposal has received a lot of opposition from the international health community. Many are concerned about the invasion of the children's privacy.
Special protections could translate into more intense surveillance, according to a medical anthropologist.
More children will be born with genes edited if the technology becomes commercially available. There is a compelling argument to start understanding the risks now.
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