The authors of the Nature paper include two of the primary inventors of the CRISPR system — Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin. In addition to calling for a moratorium, the authors argue for the creation of an international governing body that would oversee the application of the technology.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 13, 2019 19:07 UTC