Rethinking Moral Status, edited by Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny, and Julian Savulescu Multiplex parenting: in vitro gametogenesis and the generations to come. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 18, no. Human dignity and the creation of human–nonhuman chimeras. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 21 (2020): 565-586. The regulation of mitochondrial replacement techniques around the world. Reproductive genome editing interventions are therapeutic, sometimes. Read more about the ethics of chimera, in vitro gametogenesis, and stem cell research:Ĭhimeras intended for human gamete production: an ethical alternative? Reproductive Biomedicine Online (2017), 35(4), 387-390. This is problematic because one could use this same justification for stopping all stem cell research.”ĭr César Palacios-González, Senior Research Fellow in Practical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Their main point is that reproductive human heritable genome editing ‘raise unresolved ethical issues’. However, there is a problem with how the guidelines justify that human heritable genome editing should not be permitted at this moment in time. The guidelines also show why ethics must be an integral part of the education of scientists working in these areas. The ISSCR guidelines put this research front and centre, making it now impossible for scientists to ignore the important ethical issues that they face. Genome editing, the creation of human gametes in a lab, and the creation of human/non-human chimeras raise fundamental ethical issues that scientists can no longer overlook. “The new ISSCR guidelines provide a much welcomed framework for research that many find ethically contentious. Response to the ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation **OUC's Katrien Devolder, Lauren Yip and Tom Douglas discuss the moral status of chimera, and the ethical issues surrounding such research in their freely available 2020 paper ' The Ethics of Creating and Using Human-Animal Chimeras', The ILAR Journal, Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 434–438 *For an overview of the key ethical issues raised by part-human chimera research, and of possible regulatory approaches which may address these issues, see Julian Koplin and Julian Savulescu's article ' Time to rethink the law on part-human chimeras'. It is hoped that by studying the 'crosstalk' between the monkey and human cells, it will soon be possible to generate human organs in different species that could help alleviate the worldwide shortage of organs for transplantation.įull paper: Tao Tan, Jun Wu, Chenyang Si, et al, (2021), ' Chimeric contribution of human extended pluripotent stem cells to monkey embryos ex vivo', Cell, VOLUME 184, ISSUE 8, P2020-2032.E14, APRIL 15, 2021 On Thursday 15 April 2021, Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and his team announced in the journal Cellthat they have injected human stem cells into monkey blastocytes, and succeeded in keeping some of the chimeric embryos alive for up to 20 days. Such an objection relies on a particular conception of the moral status of the embryo.** A further objection points to the lack of dignity associated with the creation of these embryos.
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The most common objection to these techniques involves claims about interfering with nature – by creating ‘half-human, half-animals’. The creation of part-human chimeric embryos and live-born chimeras could prove enormously beneficial as a tool for studying development and disease, testing therapeutic drugs, and generating tissues and organs for transplant.*Ĭhimeras are usually formed by merging human and animal embryos whilst hybrids have human and animal chromosomes.
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