Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Conceptual Challenges

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.04.009
• Publication Date: 2018-06-02T12:18:18Z
• Authors: J. Benjamin Hurlbut; Sheila Jasanoff; Krishanu Saha; Aziza Ahmed; Anthony Appiah; Elizabeth Bartholet; Françoise Baylis; Gaymon Bennett; George Church; I. Glenn Cohen; George Daley; Kevin Finneran; William Hurlbut; Rudolf Jaenisch; Laurence Lwoff; John Paul Kimes; Peter Mills; Jacob Moses; Buhm Soon Park; Erik Parens; Rachel Salzman; Abha Saxena; Hilton Simmet; Tania Simoncelli; O. Carter Snead; Kaushik Sunder Rajan; Robert D. Truog; Patricia Williams; Christiane Woopen
• Keywords: Global Health

A new infrastructure is urgently needed at the global level to facilitate exchange on key issues concerning genome editing. We advocate the establishment of a global observatory to serve as a center for international, interdisciplinary, and cosmopolitan reflection. This article is the first of a two-part series.