A “Better Baby” with Gene Editing?
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A “Better Baby” with Gene Editing? PaulKnoepflerGMO Sapiens: The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies2016World ScientificSingapore266 pp. $28.00
Early this year, about a month after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) International Summit on Human Gene Editing, STAT and the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a poll of adults in the US on gene editing. Their main finding was that an overwhelmingmajority of Americans (83%) believe it should be illegal to use gene editing to ‘‘improve the intelligence or physical characteristics’...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.04.023