Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer
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The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regulations in 2015), it marks a significant policy development for a potentially large implementer of this emerging intervention. In this perspective, we consider some of the ethical and legal aspects of these policy responses.The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regulations in 2015), it marks a significant policy development for a potentially large implementer of this emerging intervention. In this perspective, we consider some of the ethical and legal aspects of these policy responses.
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Date
2016-04-01Publisher
Wiley Open Access with Embo PressCitation
Newson, A. J., Wilkinson, S., & Wrigley, A. (2016). Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, e201606281. DOI 10.15252/emmm.201606281 | Published online 21.04.2016 available at http://embomolmed.embopress.org/content/early/2016/04/21/emmm.201606281.fullShare