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Redesigning Nature:To Be or not to Be?


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1 Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, India
2 School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumarswamy Layout, Bengaluru 560 078, India
 

The concept of designer babies' is indeed intriguing, wherein offspring characteristics can be modified in the embryonic stage by gene editing. Genome editing has got an immense boost with the advent of the Cas/CRISPR technology that utilizes proteins from a bacterial immune system to remove defective genes and replaces them with a rectified edition. The technique is proving to be successful in fighting a host of genetic diseases, including cancer and has even made headway with HIV. The technology has sparked a revolution in genomics with a storm brewing over its patent rights.

Keywords

Designer Babies, Genome Editing, Patent Rights, Redesigning Nature.
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Authors

Jayashree Das
Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, India
Pritha Dey
Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, India
Pradipta Banerjee
School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumarswamy Layout, Bengaluru 560 078, India

Abstract


The concept of designer babies' is indeed intriguing, wherein offspring characteristics can be modified in the embryonic stage by gene editing. Genome editing has got an immense boost with the advent of the Cas/CRISPR technology that utilizes proteins from a bacterial immune system to remove defective genes and replaces them with a rectified edition. The technique is proving to be successful in fighting a host of genetic diseases, including cancer and has even made headway with HIV. The technology has sparked a revolution in genomics with a storm brewing over its patent rights.

Keywords


Designer Babies, Genome Editing, Patent Rights, Redesigning Nature.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi07%2F1346-1350