The Case Western Reserve University Science and Human Rights Coalition will host Andrea Waksmunski, a PhD candidate in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, for a talk titled “Ethics of Human Genome Editing and Fallout from CRISPR Babies.” The lecture will be held today (Oct. 1) from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Wolstein Research Building, Room 1217.
Waksmunski will speak about genetic editing technologies and their uses in humans. This seminar will provide an overview of the ethics of human genome editing and a discussion on the first case of its application for germline editing in humans.
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Learn more on the CWRU Science and Human Rights Coalition website.