Vector Calculus is Out: Nature Reviews—Genetics Article

As per usual when an article has moved into the post-galley stage, on Monday I woke to a string of friendly reprint requests mainly from Eastern European researches lacking good library facilities.  I guess that means my review on the ethics of gene transfer has been published in Nature Reviews—Genetics.  In it (the editors rejected my preferred title, “Vector Calculus”), I argue that despite numerous advances, researchers and policy makers continue to confront unresolved ethical and policy issues around gene transfer— among them a series of questions about research ethics, licensure of novel interventions, enhancement of human traits, and genetic modification of tissues that will be passed to progeny.  I hope the review does justice to the complexity of the field, as well as the ethical issues associated with it. (photo credit: Nature Publishing Co.)

2008 February 20 | Leave a comment | Tags: Article

@Manual{stream2008-180,
    title = {Vector Calculus is Out: Nature Reviews—Genetics Article},
    journal = {STREAM research},
    author = {Jonathan Kimmelman},
    address = {Montreal, Canada},
    date = 2008,
    month = feb,
    day = 20,
    url = {http://www.translationalethics.com/2008/02/20/vector-calculus-is-out-nature-reviews-genetics-article/}
}