What are the ethical issues surrounding gene therapy?

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Aparna Sathya Murthy

In Canada , any natural developments in the name of therapy is not ethical !!!

They do GEM stuff !!!

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Jack Son

Dear Professor,

This type of gene therapy cannot be passed to a person's children. Gene therapy could be targeted to egg and sperm cells (germ cells), however, which would allow the inserted gene to be passed to future generations. This approach is known as germline gene therapy. The idea of germline gene therapy iscontroversial.