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The statement on Thursday comes amid a growing debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in human eggs, sperm and embryos, which have the power to change the DNA of unborn children.

Earlier this year, Chinese scientists caused a controversy when they announced they'd used the gene editing technique to tweak the genomes of human embryos.

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a preEditing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a preediting genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

Using the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to turn off certain genes in a mouse zygote as well as other new techniques to enrich the pluripotent stem cells of a rat, the group managed to grow various rat organs (a pancreas, heart, and eyes) in a mouse embryo.

«Our licence committee has approved an application from Dr. Kathy Niakan of the Francis Crick Institute to renew her laboratory's research licence to include gene editing of embryos,» the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said in a statement.

Of 86 embryos injected with the editing molecules, only 11 had HBB repaired or replaced.

For other couples, gene editing could increase the number of healthy embryos available by fixing some that would otherwise be thrown away, Amato says.

But before any type of human embryo editing can be used in the clinic, it must be as safe and effective as existing embryo screening methods.

Meanwhile in the U.S., the National Institutes of Heath restated its ban on gene editing of human embryos.

The genome - editing technique earned top honors, in part because of achievements such as «the creation of a long - sought «gene drive» that could eliminate pests or the diseases they carry, and the first deliberate editing of the DNA of human embryos.»

«If we could use gene editing to remove the sequences in an embryo that cause sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis, I would say not only that we may do so, but in the case of such severe diseases, we have a moral obligation to do so.»

Ishii notes that if the clinical trial begins as planned, it would be the latest in a series of firsts for China in the field of CRISPR gene editing, including the first CRISPR - edited human embryos, and the first CRISPR - edited monkeys.

Scientists have successfully edited the genes of human embryos.

In July, researchers announced they had successfully edited the genome of viable human embryos with CRISPR; the technique allowed them to fix a disease - causing mutation in the embryos» DNA (though some are now skeptical of the researchers» results).

Those regulatory barriers include a ban on using National Institutes of Health funding for experiments that use genome - editing technologies in human embryos.

In addition, the researchers discovered a technical advance that may limit the production of patchwork embryos that aren't fully edited.

In a step that some of the nation's leading scientists have long warned against and that has never before been accomplished, biologists in Oregon have edited the DNA of viable human embryos efficiently and apparently with few mistakes, according to a report in Technology Review.

Embryos» self - healing DNA came as a surprise, because gene editing in other types of cells usually requires an external template, Mitalipov says.

Imagine if genetic diseases could be removed from the very biological code of our species — a future in which the likes of hemophilia, cystic fibrosis or dozens of other afflictions are simply edited out of human embryos.

Although most scientists at the meeting appear enthusiastic about conducting gene editing work to cure diseases in individual patients they remain more wary of making changes to eggs, sperm or embryos that would have lasting repercussions in future generations.

Concerns have been stirred by reports of research in China to correct disease - causing genetic mutations in non-viable embryos in 2015 and the granting, by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), of a licence to allow genome editing of embryos in the UK February 2016.

George Daley, a stem cell researcher and dean of Harvard Medical School agrees: «This paper establishes that we can do embryo gene editing.

«Understanding how gene editing works in human embryos will require research in human embryos,» because mouse embryos, for example, have species - specific developmental differences, notes Dana Carroll, a biochemistry professor at the University of Utah who researches CRISPR.

Prof Robin Lovell Badge, Crick Institute, on the science: «The experiments reported by Junjiu Huang and colleagues (Liang et al) in the journal Protein Cell on gene editing in abnormally fertilised human embryos are, I expect, the first of several that we will see this year.

In line with the views of most biomedical researchers, lawmakers struck a note of caution about the implications of new gene editing techniques that make heritable changes to human embryos.

This will allow easy preimplantation genetic diagnosis on a large number of embryos — or easy genome modification for those who want edited embryos instead of just selected ones.»

The statement urges scientists who want to use genome editing in human embryos to «consider carefully the category of embryo used.»

Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulators announced today.

Though editing the genetics of human embryos has sparked intense debate in the past year, Swedish scientist Fredrik Lanner has started to edit healthy human embryos for the first time, NPR reports.

A human embryo — editing paper from a different Chinese team published in April 2015 touched off a worldwide debate about the ethics of such experiments and led to calls for a research moratorium.

Geneticist Dana Carroll of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was at the Napa meeting, says that it will call for discussions of the safety and ethics of using editing techniques on human embryos.

The paper, reported on today by Nature News, is only the second - ever publication on the ethically fraught use of gene editing in human embryos.

Genetic editing of human embryos «has tremendous value» to help solve important scientific questions, and should proceed despite potential worries about use of the technique in the clinic, an influential bioethics group said today in a statement.

Known as germline modification, edits to embryos, eggs or sperm are of particular concern because a person created using such cells would have had their genetic make - up changed without consent, and would permanently pass down that change to future generations.

He is also concerned about China, which prohibits gene - editing of embryos but does not strictly enforce similar rules, as shown by failed attempts to curb the use of ultrasound for sex selection and to stamp out unauthorized stem - cell clinics.

In the first ever report of the CRISPR - Cas9 genome - editing tool being used on normal human embryos, a team of Chinese scientists had mixed results, New Scientist writes.

Baltimore crystallized much of the discussion over PGD in his opening remarks, asking: «Is it more ethical to edit embryos or screen a lot of embryos and throw many away.»

Amid rumors that precision gene - editing techniques have been used to modify the DNA of human embryos, researchers have called for a moratorium on the use of the technology in reproductive cells.

In such circumstances, gene editing of embryos, sperm, or eggs may be the only option, but that doesn't mean it's safe enough yet.

Although there needs to be a wide discussion of the safety and ethics of editing embryos and reproductive cells, they say, the potential to eliminate inherited diseases means that scientists should pursue research.

Chinese researchers report this week that they have used the CRISPR gene - editing technique to modify the genome of a human embryo in an effort to make it resistant to HIV infection.

COVER Cheap, widely available, and easy to use, the genome editing system called CRISPR earned Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year laurels for many great feats and some controversial ones — including the alteration of DNA in human embryos.

The panel also said the genes of embryos shouldn't be edited for reasons other than treating or preventing disease or disability.

Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University captured the development of human embryos in images as part of their work using a gene - editing tool.

A year of discussion about the ethics of embryo - editing research, and perhaps simply the passage of time, seems to have blunted its controversial edge — although such work remains subject to the same ethical anxieties that surround other reproductive - biology experiments.

Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to make them resistant to HIV infection.

«People are more understanding of this research,» says Fan, who points to UK fertility regulators» approval in February of a proposal by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan to edit genes in healthy human embryos, at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Their paper — which used CRISPR - editing tools in non-viable embryos that were destroyed after three days — is only the second published claim of gene editing in human embryos.

Fan's paper should help to reassure international observers about the legitimacy of human - embryo - editing research in China, says Robin Lovell - Badge, a developmental biologist at the Crick.

His instinct seems to be borne out by the fairly muted reaction to a April 6 report of an experiment to edit human embryos — only the second to be published.