At meeting on guardrails for gene editing of human embryos, some call for a dead end

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Congressman Robert Aderholt, a Republican from Alabama, first introduced that ban in 2015.
52% : Aderholt did not take any questions but described statements made by the National Academies, the Royal Society, and the World Health Organization as normalizing the pathways for heritable genome engineering.
51% : In May, it will be convening a three-day event in Boston that's open to the public and will take a human-first, rather than a technology-centric approach to trying to answer the question of "should we?" Wednesday's meeting, with its focus on envisioning guardrails for the technology and mechanisms for robust public dialogue regarding its potential future use, felt far removed from the political and economic realities of the present.
46% : Despite the National Institutes of Health's main campus being located less than 10 miles away, the cascading cuts to jobs and grants and training programs that for the last two months have been roiling the NIH -- the world's largest public funder of biomedical research -- earned barely more than a glancing mention.

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