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Science 22 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5487, p. 2023
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5487.2023a
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MEDICAL ETHICS:
Moratorium Urged on Germ Line Gene Therapy

Eliot Marshall

A report issued this week by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science) has called for a total moratorium on attempts to cure genetic diseases by altering the genome in ways that would be passed from one generation to the next. Human germ line gene therapy would be unsafe and unethical, the report concludes. And it urges the government to create an independent panel to monitor public and private research and prevent such risky experiments.

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