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Setting ethical limits on human gene editing after the fall of the somatic/germline barrier

30 Apr 2021

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The ethical debate about what is now called human gene editing (HGE) has gone on for more than 50 y. For nearly that entire time, there has been consensus that a moral divide exists between somatic and germline HGE. Conceptualizing this divide as a barrier on a slippery slope, in this paper, I first describe the slope, what makes it slippery, and describe strong barriers that arrest the slippage down to the...

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PMID: 34050016
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004837117

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