In Our Image: The Ethics of CRISPR Genome Editing
In Our Image: The Ethics of CRISPR Genome Editing
Tags: CRISPR, Ethics, Gene drive synthetic, Gene editing, Synthetic biologyJ. C. Eissenberg, Biomolecular Concepts, 12:1-7. 2021.
The advent of genome editing technology promises to transform human health, livestock and agriculture, and to eradicate pest species. This transformative power demands urgent scrutiny and resolution of the ethical conflicts attached to the creation and release of engineered genomes. Here, I discuss the ethics surrounding the transformative CRISPR/Cas9mediated genome editing technology in the contexts of human genome editing to eradicate genetic disease and of gene drive technology to eradicate animal vectors of human disease.
