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Book Chapter
Some Jewish Thoughts on Genetic Enhancement
2015
Overview
It must be stated at the very outset of the discussion that the following presentation is largely theoretical, certainly as far as germ line modification is concerned. At the present time, the techniques for germ line modification are very far from the consideration of their use in humans by ethical scientists. As Francis Collins stated to President George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics regarding the status of necessary safety techniques, “We are nowhere near meeting [the requisite safety requirements] and I think will not be for the foreseeable future.”¹ The techniques are primitive, even for somatic cell modification; the potential
