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FILM: Changing the Human Genome – What Next for Germline Genome Editing?

9 August 2021
By BioNews
Appeared in BioNews 1107

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event 'Changing the Human Genome: What Next for Germline Genome Editing?', which discussed the World Health Organisation's recent publications on human genome editing.

The event was sponsored by the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists and the Anne McLaren Memorial Trust Fund.

(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)
Introduction
0:00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust
Presentations
0:04:46 Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
Member, World Health Organisation Advisory Committee on Genome Editing
0:21:22 Dr Norah Fogarty
Group Leader, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
0:35:37 Dr Peter Mills
Assistant Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
0:52:48 Professor Vardit Ravitsky
President, International Association of Bioethics
Discussion
1:02:21 Responses to audience questions and comments

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

The three publications by the World Health Organisation discussed at this event are:

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