"I bet you won't": The science-society wager on gene editing techniques.

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Department of Systematic Theology II (Ethics), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.

Published: March 2016

By proposing a moratorium on human germ line editing using CRISPR, scientists have entered an all‐or‐nothing wager with public opinion. A better approach would be to convene a rational and broad discussion of the fair and ethical application and regulation of gene editing and other new technologies. [Image: see text]

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772984PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201541935DOI Listing

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