Stella
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What, in your opinion, is the best course of action? You know a woman who is pregnant and doesn’t want to be pregnant, and you know a couple that wants a child and has the proven safe ability and intention to change the future child’s appearance. You have the ability to influence one or the other, but not both. What is…
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@glims, you seem to be arguing that human rights extend to the genes of zygotes being involatile; eggs and sperm too perhaps (Humanae vitae)? If in your hands was a proven safe technology to correct Huntington’s disease in an embryo and a pregnant woman with that diagnosis for her unborn child begged for your help would…
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Pardon my thread necromancy here. I don’t feel particularly bad since the moral and ethical questions are still with us and I hope to add to the conversation. Often I hear choosing appearances as the most unacceptable application of HGGE. Examining the worse case scenario who are we to condemn a couple who intentionally…
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If I could trouble you to alleviate my ignorance or if I’ve mis-asked my question, I'm aware of clinical gene therapies but for modifying human germlines I’m only tracking the He Jiankui affair. Current techniques still run high risks of off target edits and mosaicism depending on technique.