Development of Gene Therapy and Its Ethical Reflection / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Since CRISPR/Cas9 has been discovered,it opens a new era for gene therapy with its low cast,high efficiency,short cycle,easy operation and other characteristics.In 2015,Huang Junjiu had used the technique to nodify human embryonic cell for the first time,leading to widespread attention at home and abroad.For nearly 50 years,ethical discussion of gene therapy has never stopped.Through reviewing the development of gene therapy,this paper analyzed several key issues of ethical controversy in gene therapy,such as safety,effectiveness,justice,right,interest orientation and so on,and put forward that gene therapy and ethics are not two opposite sides and cannot be treated separately,the development of gene therapy should follow certain ethical norms and technical norms and it should use the bioethical principles to direct gene therapy.