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Researchers are using a pair of initiatives, launched within a few days of each other, to widen the discussion about genome editing oversight to include countries often excluded from the conversation. At a meeting in Paris on March 23, a group of European biotech researchers launched the Association for Responsible Research and Innovation in Genome Editing (ARRIGE). Two days earlier, Nature published a call by two science, technology and society scholars to establish a global gene editing observatory (Nature 555, 435–437, 2018). The initiatives...