Review article

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 ; Catholic University of Croatia, Chair of Theology, Zagreb, Croatia
Darko Novak orcid.org/0000-0001-5607-2351 ; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

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.

Keywords

bioethics; biotechnological evolutionism; CRISPR-Cas9; genetically modified humans; genome

Hrčak ID:

265530

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/265530

Publication date:

15.11.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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