In Our Image: The Ethics of CRISPR Genome Editing
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J. 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. More related to this: Soon we’ll be able to engineer the wild, can the policies keep up with the science? Gene drive gone wild: exploring deliberative possibilities by developing One Health ethics
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