Germ-line gene therapy: Can we do it, do we need it, where do we start, and where might it lead?

Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications

Volumn 9780801881299, Issue , 2003, Pages 93-101

  Evans, Christopher H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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