Ethics Dumping: Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice:

According to a Chinese scientist involved in the genetically modified embryo project, which used a technique known as -Cas9 to disable the gene for 5, a protein that attaches itself to when entering a cell, Dr Deem participated as a member of the project team in the procedures in which potential volunteers gave their consent. Knowing that no country in Europe or North America would approve such procedures, Dr Canavero went to China, which he says “is quite different from the West” and “has a different ethics”. Meanwhile, in America, Kiran Musunuru, a gene-editing expert at the University of Pennsylvania, who was one of the first to look at Dr He’s data last year, suggests the creation of an international register for research involving the genetic modification of human embryos, with registration being a condition for subsequent publication.

Source: www.economist.com