The Role Of International Law In Regulating Genetic Modification

All genetic engineering underwent extraordinarily rapid growth in the last decade—far beyond one could imagine—leading to urgent needs for its regulation. For instance, gene editing with the help of the very famous CRISPR or cloning can likely solve problems of treating genetic diseases, improving food production, and enhancing human abilities but also poses some ethical, social, and environmental concerns. There is also a question the union must answer concerning the repercussions and global effects of these powerful tools. An International Framework Law has thus been put in place to control, through approval and regulation, research, development, and implementation of genetic engineering to accommodate the repercussions and guarantee safety in genetic alteration. The scientific feasibility of genetic modification began in the 1970s, after the invention of recombinant DNA technology that allowed the manipulation of genetic material of any living organism directly [1]. Genetic engineering has moved in just one forward direction over the last few decades by embracing new breakthroughs that have come along with tools offering unprecedented precision in editing genomes.Application of genetic modification can be done across agriculture, health, and industrial biotechnology. It could only be said that genetically modified crops are underway to improve qualities and genetic medicines