Who Goes First? Deaf People and CRISPR Germline Editing

• Published in: Perspectives in biology and medicine Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 54 - 65
• Main Authors: Padden, Carol, Humphries, Jacqueline
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
• Subjects: Clinical trials; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; Committees; Connexins - genetics; CRISPR; Cystic Fibrosis - genetics; Deafness; Deafness - genetics; Families & family life; Gene Editing - ethics; Gene Editing - legislation & jurisprudence; Genes; Genetic diversity; Genome editing; Genomes; Germ Cells; Hearing loss; Humans; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Mutation; Sign Language; United States > US

The development of CRISPR technology has catapulted the issue of germline editing to the forefront of a debate between the goals of medical advancement and promotion of human diversity. The US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine recommended in a joint report that germli...