NGOs overseas have pressured their governments to adopt certain restrictions. Moreover, scientists opposed to genetic engineering frequently air their views, and this soul-searching within the scientific community has placed certain "in-house" checks upon the direction of development.
除了來自民間團體的壓力，迫使政府必須作些規範外，部分持異議的科學家也不時發出不同的聲音，藉由科學家的自我反省，在科學社群中建立自製的規範。