Sentences with phrase «human germline engineering»

If this claim holds up, Mitalipov will have taken a crucial step forward in the possibility of human germline engineering.

A panel of ethicists convened by the U.S. National Academies of Medicine and Science also staked out that position in February, ruling that human germline engineering might someday be permissible for correcting diseases, but only if there are no alternatives and not for enhancements.

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In October, a UNESCO bioethics panel recommended a temporary ban on «engineering of the human germline, at least as long as the safety and efficacy of the procedures are not adequately proven».

The ability to alter human genes in a way that can be passed onto offspring, called germline engineering, has long been possible.

Tina Hesman Saey covered researchers» arguments for and against this type of genetic engineering in «Editing human germline cells debated» (SN: 5/30/15, p. 16).