Monday, April 27, 2015
Chinese paper on embryo engineering splits scientific community | Science/AAAS
Chinese paper on embryo engineering splits scientific community | Science/AAAS The
announcement that a Chinese team had altered the genetics of a human
embryo for the first time has ignited a firestorm of controversy around
the world and renewed recent calls for a moratorium on any attempt to
establish a pregnancy with such an engineered embryo. But it has also
underscored that although scientists are united in their opposition to
any clinical application of such embryo manipulation, they are split on
the value of basic research that involves genetically modifying human
embryos. In China itself, where the precedent-setting research is big
news and some in the public have expressed concern on the Internet about
the embryo experiments, "most scientists are more positive," says
Guo-Qiang Chen, a microbiologist at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "My
personal opinion is that as long as they can control the consequences
they should continue this work.”http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2015/04/chinese-paper-embryo-engineering-splits-scientific-community?mc_cid=58f07aeaf0&mc_eid=5935182a65
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