Germ-line modification in clinical medicine: Is there a case for intentional or unintended germ-line changes?

Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications

Volumn 9780801881299, Issue , 2003, Pages 68-76

  Blaese, R Michael ^a  

^a Institute for Inherited Disease Research   (United States)

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