Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Crispr, Health Equity, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Maxwell Smith

Document Summary

Lecture 20 - ethical dimensions of health policy ii. Doudna and other scientists seek worldwide moratorium on human genome editing. Aiming to implement a world-wide policy to regulate human genome editing. Chinese scientist"s claim of gene-edited babies creates uproar. Scientists who say it"s okay are primarily in the minority. Rogue scientist says another crispr pregnancy is underway. The claims that the scientist has done this is unverified - and the paper of this experiment has not been peer-reviewed or published in a journal. Uses crispr sequences that cut dna at a specific location and allowing genes to be removed or added. Correct various health conditions that have genetic origins. Somatic cells when you have a genetic predisposition to a disease, this therapy would correct the genetic disease. Germline editing affecting all of the children"s offspring - a hereditary trait that would be passed on to their children. This is where many ethical issues arise.