March 24, 2015
Ethics of Embryo Editing Divides Scientists
CDC’s ‘inconsistent’ lab practices threaten its credibility, report says
The report was put together by an external group of 11 experts in biosafety, laboratory science and research. In the report, they say they are “very concerned that the CDC is on the way to losing credibility.”
The report was put together by an external group of 11 experts in biosafety, laboratory science and research. In the report, they say they are “very concerned that the CDC is on the way to losing credibility.”
Research that uses powerful gene-editing techniques on human embryos needs to be restricted, scientists agree — but they are split over why. The concerns are laid out in an article published in Nature on 12 March and in one expected to appear in Science, amid suspicions that scientists have already edited the genes of human embryos.
GENOME-ALTERING SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH IGNITES ETHICS DEBATE
In what is being dubbed “the most important new genetic engineering technique since the beginning of the biotechnology age in the 1970s,” scientists have made an enormous breakthrough in editing human genetic material. The possibilities of the technology are so vast that scientists themselves are already calling for ethical discussion and restraint.
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