A Global Social Media Survey of Attitudes to Human Genome Editing.

McCaughey, Tristan; Sanfilippo, Paul G; Gooden, George E C; Budden, David M; Fan, Li; Fenwick, Eva; Rees, Gwyneth; MacGregor, Casimir et al. · Cell Stem Cell · 2016

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

Ongoing breakthroughs with CRISPR/Cas-based editing could potentially revolutionize modern medicine, but there are many questions to resolve about the ethical implications for its therapeutic application. We conducted a worldwide online survey of over 12,000 people recruited via social media to gauge attitudes toward this technology and discuss our findings here.

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