Germline Gene-Editing Creates Enhanced Livestock-Technical and Especially Ethical Issues Challenge Its Use in Humans  

作　　者：Jennifer Welsh 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《Engineering》2024年第2期3-5,共3页工程（英文）

摘　　要：Using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)-based molecular tools,scientists are engineering-as they are also doing with plants.-animals with advantageous traits,like disease resistance and improved food yield.While these innovative techniques could one day be applied in humans,technical hurdles and ethical concerns likely place this possibility far in the future,The enhancements rely on germline gene editing,which alters the genes in a way that passes the changes on to offspring.Ger m-line gene editing differs from the somatic cell gene editing used in the highly promising new treatment recently approved for the human disease sickle cell anemia.

关 键 词：LIKELY CREATE EDITING 

分 类 号：Q78[生物学—分子生物学]