Sentences with phrase «genes of human embryos»
Scientists have successfully edited the genes of human embryos.
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Researchers should tread lightly when it comes to editing the genes of human embryos, according to guidelines handed down in February.
Researchers in China have reported editing the genes of human embryos to try to make them resistant to HIV infection.
Researchers in China have edited the genes of human embryos to make cells resistant to HIV infection.
«In today's dialogue about reproduction, medicine, and ethics in the United States, old ethical issues — such as whether women ought to be allowed to access pregnancy termination — are more contested than they have been in decades, while new technologies — like those used to edit the genes of human embryos — suggest that our species could face unprecedented questions about who should exist,» states the introduction.
When a team of Chinese scientists announced last spring that they had edited the genes of human embryos using the powerful new gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9, the world suddenly discovered that the dystopian possibility of «designer babies» was no longer an unrealistic fantasy, but rather a technically achievable possibility that must be reckoned with.
«Modifying the genes of human embryos is deeply controversial because it can be used for worthwhile research on the one hand, or to produce genetically modified human beings on the other.
Chinese scientists have edited the genes of human embryos to help make them resistant to HIV infections.
On Monday, Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority greenlighted experiments that will attempt to edit the genes of human embryos.
«When you're editing the genes of human embryos, that means you're changing the genes of every cell in the bodies of every offspring, every future generation of that human being,» Darnovsky says.
For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.