Last week, The National Academies' Committee on Human Gene Editing began gathering information for its Consensus Study on Human Gene Editing. The study, which is expected to be released in late 2016, will represent the official view of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine on "the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine – including human germline editing – and the clinical, ethical, legal and social implications of their use."