Chapter 9 – Ethics – British Columbia and Canadian Cases
Biomedical issues and Ethics Genome Editing
Is it ethical to be manipulating DNA?
Materials and bioengineering
Stainless steel and titanium wire meshes expand to make stents. Here is a link to the American Heart Association.
https://www.heart.org/-/media/data-import/downloadables/pe-abh-what-is-a-stent-ucm_300452.pdf
Genome Editing and CRISPR
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/genetic-technologies/what-are-genetic-technologies/
A nice short video from The Royal Society explaining this
British girl treated for leukemia using gene therapy
One year later, still in remission. By Russ Logan January 2018.
What is leukemia you ask?
https://www.llscanada.org/leukemia
CRISPR
Explained by the Mayo Clinic
https://interestingengineering.com/video/the-mayo-clinic-explains-crispr-in-a-way-you-can-understand
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how-to-inject-human-eyes-with-night-vision
For a humourous take on this, John Oliver did a segment on CRISPR during his 2018 Last Week Tonight
