Moral and ethical issues in human genome editing : a statement of the CEC Bioethics Thematic Reference Group
Abstract
Recent reports of a Chinese scientist who claims to have applied genome editing techniques to human embryos, which were subsequently implanted and resulted in the birth of live babies, means that the question of whether—and how—these techniques should be used in humans demands an urgent answer. This in-depth report takes a wider perspective on the issue, which concerns all people as individuals and collectively as a society. It challenges the alleged achievement in China as being profoundly unethical, reflecting a disregard for the ethical and professional concerns of the international scientific community.Date
2019Type
BookISBN
97828893129559782889312948
DOI
10.58863/20.500.12424/170470Copyright/License
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International2019 Globethics.net and CEC
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.58863/20.500.12424/170470
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