The current ethical and legal standards for human subjects research do not adequately address human gene editing technologies, because scientific advancements in this field have outpaced regulatory policy. The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technique allows the rewriting of life's code, but is fraught with scientific and ethical quandaries. In particular, the genetic alteration of human embryos in vitro in China has caused worldwide repercussions.
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