Guidelines for human genome editing

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 22:42 in Psychology & Sociology

As countries around the world seek to craft policy frameworks governing the powerful new genetic editing tool, policy makers need to determine 'thresholds of acceptability' for using the technology, according to researchers. They suggest that policy makers could be guided by the model that has served to develop policies governing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis after in vitro fertilization.

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