CRISPR

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UTSC Department of Management

Ved Stephanie Perpick

Case Study: Clive Wearing

Ved Evan Usher

Confucianism

Ved Sathyashree Thirunavukarasu

Morality and Law

Ved Gillian Dickinson

it cuts the DNA disabling the virus

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Replace a mutant gene with an healthy copy

Used by bacteria to protect themselves from infections

Cas9

It can target multiple genes simultaneously

it's used to understand the function of genes

it could cut any DNA sequence at a chosen location

It can quickly create cell and animal models

used for research into diseases

rapid diagnostic

CRISPR

CRISPR applications

drug development

infectious diseases

congenital disorders

biomedicine

agricultural biotechnology

Limitations

Ethical issues

violation of the order of nature

formation of chimeras for organ transplantation

non-therapeutic interventions

to match genetics to life interests

application of CRISPR on human germline

possibility to alter human genes

absence of regulations for consumers

ecological disequilibrium

Sottoargomento

Technical limitations

incomplete or inaccurate genetic editing

could cause unwanted and risky mutations