Human gene editing is characterized by powerful curability,irreversibility,uncertainty and wide im-pact,which brings potential risks to ethics and morality,life and health,social order and ecological environment.The Criminal Law regulates human gene editing behaviors with serious social hazards,and different types of behav-iors will appear in the stages of basic research,clinical trials,and routine applications of human gene editing,which should be matched with appropriate criminal law norms.The intervention of Criminal Law on human gene editing behaviors should be limited by the protection of juridical legal interests,the principle of objective interpretation,and the position of non-interference in neutral technological innovation.
Human gene editingCriminal law regulationObjective interpretationBiosafety