In a letter to Justice Edwin Cameron and Margaret Ann Hamburg, Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing, World Health Organization (WHO), the ISSCR shared its recommendations regarding plans to create a genome editing registry. The recommendations are intended to help to ensure that the proposed registry attracts legitimate submissions of fundamental and preclinical research and avoid abuse by businesses seeking to prematurely commercialize genome editing technologies.

Skokie, IL – The ISSCR and 100 scientific and medical organizations united to impress upon the U.S. Administration to remove the restrictions on research using fetal tissue in order to allow crucial research into COVID-19 treatments and other diseases to move forward during this unprecedented global public health crisis.

The ISSCR announces its endorsement for the California initiative to invest $5.5 billion in stem cell research to continue the research and development of new therapies for life-threatening and devastating diseases. The new initiative will build on the historic $3 billion investment made by California in 2004, which created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and established the state as a leader in the field. While stem cell research holds enormous potential, more research is needed to develop and test safe and effective stem cell-based treatments…