Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.19.3.12
Life Under the Systematic Control of CRISPR-Cas9 Tool Ethical Evaluation of New Technical Genome Editing
Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo
orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-8935
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Katedra za teologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Darko Novak
orcid.org/0000-0001-5607-2351
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Modern development of biomedicine and technology faster and better than before brings new discoveries that will significantly improve access to the health of living beings. One of those discoveries is the CRISPR-Cas9 tool which brought scientists the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. With this tool, it is possible precise genome editing and this opens the possibilities of manipulating life all the way to the risk of »production« of genetically modified people. This article seeks to concisely present the main principles of that tool and its therapeutic applications to a living organism. Ethical challenges reveal the danger of biomodification through the ability to design future children, and this restores, not only eugenics, but also the desire to transcend the human.
Ključne riječi
bioethics; biotechnological evolutionism; CRISPR-Cas9; genetically modified humans; genome
Hrčak ID:
265530
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2021.
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