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Parr Center Panel: CRISPR
April 18, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
CRISPR: The History, Science and Ethics of Genetic Modification
Please join the Parr Center for Ethics for a discussion of the science, history, and ethics of genetic modification, with special focus on CRISPR, a new gene-editing tool that the New York Times claims “might create an ethical morass” or “might make revising nature seem natural.”
Our panel includes Gregory Copenhaver (UNC, Biology), Susan Lederer (UW, Bioethics), and Eric Juengst (UNC, Bioethics), with Rebecca Walker (UNC, Bioethics) moderating. Panelists will tell us about the current state of CRISPR, the history of this technology, and the ethical questions that this technology raises for altering the germline of humans, nonhumans, and plants. The panel will then take questions from the moderator as well as from the audience.
Learn more about CRISPR via The New York Times and RadioLab.
This event is co-sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics and the UNC Center for Bioethics.
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