O. Carter Snead, director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, was quoted in an Associated Press article commenting on a report that a researcher in China used CRISPR/Cas-9 technology to edit in vitro the genetic sequences of human babies. Professor Snead, a former advisor to the President's Council on Bioethics, called the report “deeply troubling, if true. No matter how well intentioned, this intervention is dangerous, unethical, and represents a perilous new moment in human history. These children, and their children’s children, have had their futures irrevocably changed without consent, ethical review or meaningful deliberation."