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ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2023

Initial heritable genome editing: mapping a responsible pathway from basic research to the clinic.

Robert Ranisch, Katharina Trettenbach, Gardar Arnason

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Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Gene Editing for Enhanced Swine Production: Current Advances and Prospects.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Robert RanischJunior Professorship for Medical Ethics with a Focus on Digitization, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Am Mühlberg 9, 14476, Potsdam, Golm, Germany. ranisch@uni-potsdam.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1676-1694
Katharina TrettenbachJunior Professorship for Medical Ethics with a Focus on Digitization, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Am Mühlberg 9, 14476, Potsdam, Golm, Germany.
Gardar ArnasonResearch Unit "Ethics of Genome Editing", Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Gartenstraße 47, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-7096

Funding

The Dr. Kurt und Irmgard Meister-Stiftung The Dr. Kurt und Irmgard Meister-Stiftung
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following the Second Summit on Human Gene Editing in Hong Kong in 2018, where the birth of two girls with germline genome editing was revealed, the need for a responsible pathway to the clinical application of human germline genome editing has been repeatedly emphasised. This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion on research ethics issues in germline genome editing by exploring key issues related to the initial applications of CRISPR in reproductive medicine. Following an overview of the current discussion on bringing germline genome editing into clinical practice, we outline the specific challenges associated with such interventions and the features that distinguish them from conventional clinical testing of new medical treatments. We then review proposed ethical requirements for initial heritable genome editing, such as the absence of reasonable alternatives, the existence of sufficient and reliable preclinical data, appropriate informed consent, requirements related to safety, and long-term follow-up.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsGene EditingEthics, ResearchFemaleGenome, HumanGerm CellsHumansResearchCRISPRFirst-in-human trialsGermline interventionsHeritable genome editingReproductionResearch ethicsTranslational ethics

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PMID36414813
PMCPMC9984515

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