Human germline engineering (HGE) is the process by which the genome of an individual is modified in such a way that the change is heritable. This is achieved...

criticism and legal debates. This highlights the implications of germline engineering, which involves introducing the desired genetic material into the...

original on 5 August 2001. Smith KR, Chan S, Harris J (October 2012). "Human germline genetic modification: scientific and bioethical perspectives". Archives...

not prohibit germline engineering. A 2020 issue of the journal Bioethics was devoted to moral issues surrounding germline genetic engineering in people....

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arising from somatic mutations such as cancer. However, its use in human germline genetic modification is highly controversial. The development of this...

Human genetic enhancement or human genetic engineering refers to human enhancement by means of a genetic modification. This could be done in order to cure...

Arnadottir GA, Eiriksson O, et al. (January 2021). "Differences between germline genomes of monozygotic twins". Nature Genetics. 53 (1): 27–34. doi:10...

A germline mutation, or germinal mutation, is any detectable variation within germ cells (cells that, when fully developed, become sperm and ova). Mutations...

1007/s11105-021-01286-7. S2CID 233713026. "Special Issue on Human Germline Editing". Bioethics. 34. 2020. "Customized Human Genes: New Promises and Perils". Scientific...

tested and trialed. A few of these emerging technologies include: human genetic engineering (gene therapy), neurotechnology (neural implants and brain–computer...

(1991) Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism (1993) Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and...

2014. Kleiderman, Erika; Stedman, Ian Norris Kellner (April 2020). "Human germline genome editing is illegal in Canada, but could it be desirable for some...

the human genome – so-called germline gene editing." In 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report "Human Genome...

advance a comprehensive, scientifically based position against human germline engineering. It was also the first to compile documented cases of genetic...

rate of both somatic and germline mutations per cell division than humans. The disparity in mutation rate between the germline and somatic tissues likely...

according to Kirkwood. Individual organisms ordinarily age and die, while the germlines which connect successive generations are potentially immortal. The basis...

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine, otherwise known...

that in somatic cells from the same individual. This low frequency in the germline leads to embryos that have a low frequency of point mutations in the next...

different discoveries and advancements led to the development of genetic engineering. Human-directed genetic manipulation began with the domestication of plants...

in human genetics providing the argument against unregulated modification of human germline cells. Fukuyama argues that the moral status of human embryos...

In contrast, gametes derive from meiosis within the germ cells of the germline and they fuse during sexual reproduction. Stem cells also can divide through...

The United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning was a nonbinding statement against all forms of human cloning approved by a divided UN General Assembly...

is the elevation of well-being in humans and other animals through biological methods, including germline engineering through screening embryos with genes...

does represent a form of cloning, but this is not ethically equivalent to germline genome editing, and references to Brave New World may lead some readers...

Korean biologist, Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have created the first human embryonic stem cells by cloning in 2004. Hwang and his research team at...

scientific research related to germline intervention and its implications to law and bioethics. Gene patents [3] Patents for human genetic material grant exclusivity...

development and use of human embryos. Most commonly, this controversy focuses on embryonic stem cells. Not all stem cell research involves human embryos. For example...

delivery. They can become endogenous, integrating their genome into the host germline genome, so that the virus is henceforth inherited by the host's descendants...

proponent of liberal arts education via the "Great Books," as a critic of human cloning, life extension, euthanasia and embryo research, and for his tenure...