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The only vaccination against TB is more than 100 years old. Gene-editing has made it more effective.
Debates about GMOs and gene-edited foods are multifaceted. There’s no evidence they’re not safe to eat, but no room for complacency either.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have been awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for their revolutionary work on ‘gene scissors’ that can edit DNA.
Scientists and ethicists have called for a five-year moratorium on editing human genes that will pass on to future generations. Yes, society needs to figure out how to proceed – but is this the best way?
While gene editing offers the exciting potential for disease therapies, using it on human embryos opens up a can of worms.
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Research Group Head, Germ Cell Development and Epigenetics, Hudson Institute
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Research Fellow, Centre for Crop Science, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
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Head of School (Computer Science) and Co-Director (Centre for Data Science), Queensland University of Technology
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Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of Calgary