The Ethics of Heritable Genome Editing: New Considerations in a Controversial Area

Adashi and Cohen express opinion on the ethics of heritable genome editing and its new considerations in controversial areas. It is said that editing genome of human gametes or embryos is a disruptive unactualized technology and continues to be the subject of a wide range of concerns. The chief conc...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 320; no. 24; pp. 2531 - 2532
Main Authors Adashi, Eli Y, Cohen, I. Glenn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 25.12.2018
Subjects
Bioengineering
Biomedical research
Editing
Embryos
Ethics
Gametes
Genetics
Genomes
Medical ethics
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Summary:Adashi and Cohen express opinion on the ethics of heritable genome editing and its new considerations in controversial areas. It is said that editing genome of human gametes or embryos is a disruptive unactualized technology and continues to be the subject of a wide range of concerns. The chief concern is the safety and efficacy of such an intervention and the unwanted errors that it might cause for further generations through the modified germline. They added that equality of access to these innovative interventions is another additional concern.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.18270