Plan for wholesale genome testing of babies in the UK is ethically fraught - MercatorNet
6/6/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 9 months ago
by More by Margaret Somerville
by More by Margaret Somerville
We have embarked on a new voyage of discovery into the vast deep inner space of our being, our genetic blueprint, which is both individual and collective. It’s not an exploration to be undertaken lightly or without major attention to the ethics of what we do.
A large National Health Service (NHS) project to sequence the genomes of up to 200,000 newborn babies is planned to start next year in the United Kingdom. This Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) project r… [+8897 chars]
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