Mitochondrial modification techniques and ethical issues

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Gómez Tatay, Lucía ^a,b   Hernández Andreu, José M ^a,b   Aznar, Justo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALENCIA SAN VICENTE MÁRTIR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Ethics; Gene editing; Maternal spindle transfer; Mitochondrial disease; Mitochondrial replacement; Polar body transfer; Pronuclear transfer; TALENs

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA MODIFICATION; DONOR SELECTION; GENE EDITING; GERM LINE GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEIGH DISEASE; MATERNAL SPINDLE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUE; MITOCHONDRIAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLAR BODY TRANSFER; PRONUCLEAR TRANSFER;

EID: 85106658339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm6030025     Document Type: Article

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