Human genome editing and how that can bend the boundaries of medical ethics

1. HUMAN GENOME
EDITING
Sameenah Ahmed

2. When thinking of the advantages or disadvantages of human genome editing…

3. To what extent does this
pass an ethical standard in
medicine?
• In 2007 A reproductive biologist and his team at Oregon Health and Science
University published proof-of-principle research in primates showing it was
possible to derive stem cells from cloned primate embryos.
• In 2013, his team was the first to create human embryonic stem cells by
cloning. Now in 2017, his team has safely and effectively modified human
embryos with the mutation that causes myocardial disease, using the gene
editing technique CRISPR.

4. Do you think that
genome editing should
be allowed?

5. In February of this year, the Human Fertilization and Embryology
Authority in the United Kingdom approved a request by the Francis
Crick Institute to modify human embryos using the new gene editing
technique CRISPR-Cas9.
The scientists at the institute want to bring more awareness to early
embryo development, which could lead to safer and more
successful fertility treatments.

6. For Human Genome
Editing
.VS.
Against Human Genome
Editing