How the gene-editing in medicine and public health practice could stand the test of bioethics

In recent years, gene editing is increasingly used as one of the technical means to solve public health problems. The great progress made in field life science and gene-editing technology has it possible for humans control alter human physiological characteristics through created a broad application prospect this technology. However, faced with many significant ethical risks, experiments have been banned long time past. Realistic technological breakthroughs emergence real cases force ethics circle re-examine issue. Through analysis trade-off potential benefits risks technology, can be found that different applications purposes are considered acceptability. Among them, medical no fundamental moral barriers, enhancement cannot allowed by reality current social environment, transformation fundamentally violates norms. Therefore, if only