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Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report
- Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk
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Moral reasons to edit the human genome: picking up from the Nuffield report
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- Received September 7, 2018
- Revised December 2, 2018
- Accepted December 11, 2018
- First published January 24, 2019.
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August 30, 2019
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