Medicine's Megan Allyse discusses ethics of embryo-editing research

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses

Scientific American: Megan Allyse, visiting associate professor in the Department of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, said embryo-editing research typically faces multiple ethical review layers and questioned how a study navigated existing safeguards. While numerous “guardrails” exist, she said it remains unclear how the research proceeded through them, underscoring concerns about oversight as embryo-editing technology advances.