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Bookmark or Share- Human Genetic Modification | Center for Genetics and SocietyHuman genetic modification (or “gene editing”) can be used in two very different ways. Somatic genome editing changes the genes in a patient’s cells to treat a medical condition.
- Human Cloning Policies | Center for Genetics and SocietyApproximately 46 countries have formally banned human cloning. While encouraging, this represents less than a quarter of all countries. International organizations have also been working towards prohibitions on reproductive cloning. For example, in 1998 the Council of Europe issued an amendment to its Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.
- CGS Summary of Public Opinion Polls - Center for Genetics and Society.text-align-center { text-align: center } This page displays the results of more than 60 major public opinion surveys about four categories of emerging human biotechnologies: human genetic modification, human reproductive cloning, and embryonic stem cell research and research cloning. (Polls on animal technologies are summarized here.) The Center for Genetics and Society has compiled and ...
- Human Cloning - Center for Genetics and SocietyFor the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans. Since Dolly’s birth in 1996, scientists...
- Reproductive Cloning Arguments Pro and ConArguments offered for and against reproductive cloning are given below. A summary comment follows at the end of the arguments. Arguments Against Reproductive Cloning. 1. Reproductive cloning would foster an understanding of children, and of people in general, as objects that can be designed and manufactured to possess specific characteristics. 2.
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