She ended up spending six and a half years interviewing doctors at the hospital, patients, nurses, family members, government officials, ethicists, hospital administrators.
And engaging with other scientists, doctors, ethicists and governments to maximize the likelihood that base editing is applied thoughtfully, safely and ethically, remains a critical obligation.
We believe, for example, that to be a fully flourishing citizen in the age of artificial intelligence, engineers must comprehend human culture and ethicists must understand technology.
As scientists, engineers, and ethicists come together, the focus remains on harnessing the benefits of the nanoscale while ensuring the responsible and ethical deployment of these technologies.
Many scientists and ethicists condemned the experiment as unethical and unsafe, fearing that it could inspire rogue or frivolous attempts to create permanent genetic changes using unproven and unregulated methods.