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GENEVA – A committee of experts convened by the World Health Organization has asked the US health agency to create a database of scientists working on gene editing.
The recommendation was announced Tuesday after a two-day meeting in Geneva to examine the scientific, ethical, social and legal challenges of such research.
Last year, a Chinese scholar rocked the scientific community by announcing that he had created the world's first babies to be modified by a gene, thus altering the binoculars' DNA to make them resistant to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
The announcement comes from the call by an international group of scientists and ethicists for a temporary ban on gene-modified babies in the journal Nature last week.
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