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In what MIT Tech Review has called the \u201cbiggest biotech discovery of the century,\u201d CRISPR\/Cas9 and related techniques promise easy-to-do, inexpensive, and highly precise genetic deletions, insertions, and functional manipulations to basic genetic processes across the full spectrum of living beings. This holds great promise for advances in agriculture, animal studies, and fundamental biomedical research, but raises difficult questions when applied to direct interventions in human life.<\/p>\n

In this presentation Dr Hurlbut will discuss a range of\u00a0possible applications of CRISPR in medical therapy and basic research, with a particular emphasis on the ethical dilemmas associated with germ line editing and research on human embryos.\u00a0 Acknowledging the inseparable relationship of these issues from advances in\u00a0in vitro fertilization<\/em>, stem cell research, cloning, synthetic biology, and research on human\/animal chimeras, we will seek comprehensive principles that can, at once, open medical advance while upholding the intrinsic dignity of the human person.<\/p>\n

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About the speaker:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr William B. Hurlbut<\/strong>, Consulting Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University Medical Center, US<\/p>\n

Dr William B. Hurlbut<\/strong>\u00a0is a physician and Consulting Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University Medical Center. \u00a0His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. \u00a0In addition to teaching at Stanford, he has worked with NASA on projects in astrobiology and as a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare working group at Stanford\u2019s Center for International Security and Cooperation. From 2002-2009 Dr. Hurlbut served on the President\u2019s Council on Bioethics. He is the author of Altered Nuclear Transfer, a proposed technological solution to the moral controversy over embryonic stem cell research. \u00a0He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Adolescence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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