AMA Journal of Ethics

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

Although advisory groups like the World Health Organization question whether certain forms of gene editing should be permitted, the US Patent Office routinely issues patents protecting this technology.

Clinicians should have a working understanding of gene editing, controversy surrounding its use, and its far-reaching clinical and ethical implications.

Genome editing raises old questions, but CRISPR arose in a political landscape that vastly differs from the early aughts.

Genome editing is an inexpensive and efficient tool to introduce changes in DNA, but key ethical worries deserve attention.

In art, authenticity tends to be perceived in proximity to an artist’s original intention, and it can help guide future research in germline editing.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

One reason for neglect of women’s health as patients and subjects has been restrictions on uterine transfer of modified human embryos, a boundary that has now been crossed.

Gene editing reminds professionals and the public that this technology’s reach goes beyond treating somatic disease to germline consequences yet unknown.

Little claims data exists upon which to make informed decisions about loss control or to draw upon when developing risk mitigation strategies.