By Sinead Prince and Julian Savulescu Imagine discovering that the child you gestated and have been raising for two years isn’t genetically yours – but someone else’s embryo was implanted by mistake. This isn’t science fiction; it happened in Victoria, Australia, in 2025. The case raises a profound question that courts, families, and society must […]
Category: Governance
Mind the anticipatory gap: factoring future moral change into the governance of human genome editing
By John Danaher. Human genome editing is a potentially transformative emerging technology. Current clinical trials of CRISPR, for example, suggest it can be used as a therapeutic to treat a wide range of hereditary and acquired diseases. More speculatively, it could also be used as an enhancer, improving the capacities of generally normal or healthy […]