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1. The principle of procreative beneficence and its implications for genetic engineering

   Molecular genetic engineering technologies such as CRISPR/Cas9 have made the accurate and safe genetic engineering of human embryos possible. Further...

   Luvuyo Gantsho in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

   Article 26 July 2022

2. Biolaw and the Biosciences

   Global risk looms over life as a whole, and thinking about ravaging consequences for human and non-human existence is not extravagant whatsoever. The...

   Erick Valdés in Biolaw: Origins, Doctrine and Juridical Applications on the Biosciences

   Chapter 2021
   

3. Using Breeding Technologies to Improve Farm Animal Welfare: What is the Ethical Relevance of Telos?

   Some breeding technology applications are claimed to improve animal welfare: this includes potential applications of genomics and genome editing to...

   K. Kramer, F. L. B. Meijboom in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

   Article Open access 09 February 2021

4. Introduction: Biomedical Research in One World: Current and Future Challenges

   Biomedicine has sparked interest around the world as it may offer knowledge about fundamental biological processes as well as latest generation...

   Erick Valdés, Juan Alberto Lecaros in Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume I

   Chapter 2023
   

5. Non-safety Assessments of Genome-Edited Organisms: Should They be Included in Regulation?

   This article presents and evaluates arguments supporting that an approval procedure for genome-edited organisms for food or feed should include a...

   Bjørn Kåre Myskja, Anne Ingeborg Myhr in Science and Engineering Ethics

   Article Open access 18 May 2020

6. Risks and benefits of human germline genome editing: An ethical analysis

   With the arrival of new methods of genome editing, especially CRISPR/Cas 9, new perspectives on germline interventions have arisen. Supporters of...

   Giovanni Rubeis, Florian Steger in Asian Bioethics Review

   Article 16 July 2018

7. Neurotechnology, Consent, Place, and the Ethics of Data Science Genomics in the Precision Medicine Clinic

   In this chapter we briefly outline key philosophy and bioethics dimensions of a genomics medicine case that begins with typical clinical encounters...

   Andrew Crowden, Matthew Gildersleeve in Protecting the Mind

   Chapter 2022
   

8. Chapter 12 Gene Editing in Human Embryos. A Comment on the Ethical Issues Involved

   CRISPR gene edition constitutes one of the most promising tools in the area of human health. However, it also involves a number of issues that...

   Iñigo De Miguel Beriain, Ana María Marcos del Cano in The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics

   Chapter 2018
   

9. Ethics parallel research: an approach for (early) ethical guidance of biomedical innovation

   Background

   Our human societies and certainly also (bio) medicine are more and more permeated with technology. There seems to be an increasing...

   Karin R. Jongsma, Annelien L. Bredenoord in BMC Medical Ethics

   Article Open access 01 September 2020

10. Artifishial: naturalness and the CRISPR-salmon

    One of the reasons why GMOs have met public resistance in the past is that they are perceived as “unnatural”. The basis for this claim has, in part,...

    Hannah Winther in Agriculture and Human Values

    Article Open access 19 February 2024

11. Philosophy, ethics, and conservation science

    Evelyn Brister in Metascience

    Article 19 September 2022

12. Challenging the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction in CRISPR Gene Editing

    CRISPR science enables genomic engineering that has major implications in disease prevention and therapy, but also in various non-human applications....

    Arvin M. Gouw in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy

    Chapter 2018
    

13. GMOs and Sustainable Agriculture

    The introduction of genetically engineered crops in agriculture in the mid-1990s has been heralded as the advent of the Second Green Revolution....

    Sheldon Krimsky in Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume I

    Chapter 2023
    

14. Structured analysis of broader GMO impacts inspired by technology assessment to inform policy decisions

    If genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are approved in the EU for experimental release or marketing authorization (placing on the market), a risk...

    Tim Dassler, Anne I. Myhr, ... Bernd Giese in Agriculture and Human Values

    Article Open access 23 November 2023
    

15. Restore politics in societal debates on new genomic techniques

    End of April 2021, the European Commission published its study on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs). The study involved a consultation of Member States...

    Lonneke M. Poort, Jac. A. A. Swart, ... Lucien Hanssen in Agriculture and Human Values

    Article Open access 07 July 2022
    

16. Scientific Advances, Ethical Oversight and Legal Institutionality

    Over the last decades, ethical oversight and legal institutionality have paid increasing and special attention to research related to the advancement...

    Carlos María Romeo Casabona in Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume II

    Chapter 2023
    

17. The genetic technologies questionnaire: lay judgments about genetic technologies align with ethical theory, are coherent, and predict behaviour

    Background

    Policy regulations of ethically controversial genetic technologies should, on the one hand, be based on ethical principles. On the other...

    Svenja Küchenhoff, Johannes Doerflinger, Nora Heinzelmann in BMC Medical Ethics

    Article Open access 25 May 2022

18. Bioeconomy and Ethics

    Although many empirical studies have been done to elaborate the meaning of sustainability, the core of its meaning is normative. When the concept of...

    Bart Gremmen in Bioeconomy and Sustainability

    Chapter 2022
    

19. Genetic Science and the Future of American War-Fighters

    In 2017, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) budgeted 100-million-dollars to fund gene-editing technology. While much...

    Sheena M. Eagan in Ethics of Medical Innovation, Experimentation, and Enhancement in Military and Humanitarian Contexts

    Chapter 2020
    

20. Precautionary Reasoning

    Every day we make decisions involving risks, benefits, and precautionsPrecaution. We engage in what I call precautionary reasoningPrecautionary...

    David B. Resnik in Precautionary Reasoning in Environmental and Public Health Policy

    Chapter 2021