Nature Biotechnology 33, 478 (2015)

CRISPR germline engineering—the community speaks

Katrine S Bosley, Michael Botchan, Annelien L Bredenoord, Dana Carroll, R Alta Charo, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ron Cohen, Jacob Corn, Jennifer Doudna, Guoping Feng, Henry T Greely, Rosario Isasi, Weihzi Ji, Jin-Soo Kim, Bartha Knoppers, Edward Lanphier, Jinsong Li, Robin Lovell-Badge, G Steven Martin, Jonathan Moreno, Luigi Naldini, Martin Pera, Anthony CF Perry, J Craig Venter, Feng Zhang, Qi Zhou.
Nature Biotechnology asks selected members of the international community to comment on the ethical issues raised by the prospect of CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of the human germline.