Sentences with phrase «embryo editing such»

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The genome - editing technique earned top honors, in part because of achievements such as «the creation of a long - sought «gene drive» that could eliminate pests or the diseases they carry, and the first deliberate editing of the DNA of human embryos.»

«If we could use gene editing to remove the sequences in an embryo that cause sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis, I would say not only that we may do so, but in the case of such severe diseases, we have a moral obligation to do so.»

A human embryo — editing paper from a different Chinese team published in April 2015 touched off a worldwide debate about the ethics of such experiments and led to calls for a research moratorium.

Known as germline modification, edits to embryos, eggs or sperm are of particular concern because a person created using such cells would have had their genetic make - up changed without consent, and would permanently pass down that change to future generations.

In such circumstances, gene editing of embryos, sperm, or eggs may be the only option, but that doesn't mean it's safe enough yet.

A year of discussion about the ethics of embryo - editing research, and perhaps simply the passage of time, seems to have blunted its controversial edge — although such work remains subject to the same ethical anxieties that surround other reproductive - biology experiments.

More such embryo - editing papers are likely to be published, he adds.

Like other bodies that have recently reviewed CRISPR and older genome editing methods, the committee also endorsed basic research using embryo editing to study areas such as early human development.

Genome editing of a human embryo would affect every cell in the embryo's resulting fetus, as opposed to altering the DNA of a select type of cells — such as the stem cells that produce blood cells.