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"Debate, not 'designer babies' hyperbole, is what we need in genome editing"

Mason Institute
This week saw the publication of a much-awaited report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on human genome editing (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2018). Genome editing has been hailed as one of the great revolutionary technologies of our time. Its potential for human health applications, via somatic or heritable genetic modification, is simultaneously one of the most exciting and most controversial possibilities it offers. This report, from a body widely regarded as the UK’s de facto national bioethics advisory commission, thus represents an important milestone in the evolving discourse.