Despite creating a revolution in medical sciences, Gene editing technology in humans has its own limitations. Analyze (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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Gene editing, a revolution
· A group of scientists at UC San Diego used CRISPR to make a population of mosquitoes resistant to spreading malaria.
· Scientists used CRISPR to identify the set of essential genes a human cancer cell needs to survive.
· Scientists are already using gene editing to treat diseases in people, a form of gene therapy. By tweaking special cells in body's immune system, they were able to send them on a search-and-destroy mission to target cancerous tumor cells.
Limitations
· Deactivating a gene in two human embryos, which means that the changes he made could be inherited by the next generation.
· In doing so, this violates the widely held ethical consensus that it is too early for germline editing, for we simply don’t know enough yet about the risks of such experiments.
· Studies have shown that the technology can result in unintended mutations, which in turn can cause cancers.
· Every gene likely influences multiple traits, depending on the environment it interacts with. This makes it hard to predict the ultimate outcome of an embryo-editing exercise without decades of follow-up.
Predictability of risks, consequences of experiments conducted should be comprehensively documented with appropriate scientific explanations. Without this experimenting with human embryos violates the ethical conduct.
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