Sentences with phrase «genetics of human embryos»
Though editing the genetics of human embryos has sparked intense debate in the past year, Swedish scientist Fredrik Lanner has started to edit healthy human embryos for the first time, NPR reports.
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John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah, told the President's Council on Bioethics last September that preimplantation embryo loss is «enormous.
On the other hand, Ammar Al - Chalabi, King's College London, who studies the human genetics of ALS, pointed out that PGD is simpler and still comes up with about half the embryos being healthy.