the National Academy of Sciences realized that. Even as they called for public discussion of the issue, they created a twenty-two-person committee of experts to undertake a yearlong study on whether there should be a moratorium on germline DNA edits. In their final report, issued in February 2017, the group did not call for a ban or a moratorium. Instead, it provided a list of criteria that should be met before germline editing should be allowed, among them: “absence of reasonable alternatives, restriction to preventing a serious disease or condition,” and a few others that were not
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