Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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The Ethics of Genetic Editing
For the humans, it's really a taboo to edit our genom in the germ line. But something like that happened recently? Yes, as quite a famous case. A scientist in china went to prison because he e, announced, can have outed the blue at thi em international conference that he had. And er, his the reason being that he s experimenting. He wanted to m prove that there was a way to make sure humans could develop carry h i b am. So few edits an embryo, am, that difference will be passed on to the next generation. Whereas with somatic editing, so if you that's when you edit a person after they've been born.
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