Biotechnology Ethics By Danee and Kamyar Dilemma Should

Biotechnology & Ethics By: Danee and Kamyar

Dilemma: Should we have the ability to put an entire species at risk by editing their DNA?

Putting it simply, yes. • Every adult should be able to decide for themselves and then for children, it should either not be allowed or it should be chosen by one of the child's parents or guardians. • Going with the standard of children not being allowed to have their DNA edited, the situation could be compared to voting. Adults can vote for whoever they want, they vote knowing the possible consequences and/or advantages coming with their decision. With DNA editing, adults could go in having the same expectations. They could decide to have their DNA edited and they could decide how much they want their DNA edited knowing the possible consequences and/or advantages coming from their decision.

Discover Some questions that we needed to ask while investigating the topic were: - Is it ethical to edit other species DNA? - What is CRISPR? - How does the gene editing affect the species? - How do the scientists edit their DNA? We researched these main topics and found some answers that satisfied the questions.

The Answers Is it ethical to edit other species DNA? In our opinion, no. But, we do understand that when CRISPR and other gene editing based projects reached the phase of having to be tested on living organisms, it was safer to test them on other species than on humans and unfortunately we believe that a lot of animals will be affected by these sort of things. What is CRISPR? CRISPR stands for "Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats", and it works by adding genes to a certain creature, potentially editing their genes and changing an organism's DNA. Scientists use this technology to edit the DNA of species. How does the gene editing affect the species? The gene editing has to potential to wipe out most diseases that are transmitted from other species. However, although this can benefit the humans, an accidental release of gene drives can change an entire species. Even if we target one species to change, it could affect other species as well.

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