The aim of the presentation is to focus on the differences between two scientific contexts: the
genetic engineering context of the 1970s, with specific attention paid to the use of the …

Genome Editing Techniques are seen to be at the frontier of current research in the field of
emerging biotechnologies. The latest revolutionary development, the so-called CRISPR …

This paper provides an overview of the positions that emerged from the international debate
concerning the governance of genome editing (CRISPR/Cas9). The paper also offers …

Various organisations have called for an international regulation of human genome editing,
particularly of interventions into the human germline with the tool CRISPR-Cas9. In the last …

In 2015 scientists called for a partial ban on genome editing in human germline cells. This
call was a response to the rapid development of the CRISPR–Cas9 system, a molecular tool …

Although germline editing has been the subject of debate ever since the 1980s, it tended to
be based rather on speculative assumptions until April 2015, when CRISPR/Cas9 …

Current methods of genome editing have been steadily realising the once remote
possibilities of making effective and realistic genetic changes to humans, animals and …

This paper intends to gravitate into a brief exposition of the framework of 'liberal
eugenics'(often described as the more liberated, compassionate form of eugenics …

Abstract On April 3, 2015, a group of prominent biologists and ethicists called for a
worldwide moratorium on human genetic engineering in which the genetic modifications …

It is well known that every scientific and technological development is ambivalent in the
sense that it can contribute to improving people's quality of life but, at the same time, may …