Engineering the human germline : an exploration of the science and ethics of altering the genes we pass to our children

This book is based on a one-day colloquium at UCLA, giving an overview of the potential and the practical details that need to be resolved to make human germline engineering possible. Chapters and panel discussions present the ethical and social concerns and implications of our fast-approaching capibility to alter our own germline and take an active role in the future evolution of our own species. Explanation of how we have arrived at the capability to clone higher animals, and the implications for human therapies and for our own future when these techniques are applied to the human germline are also discussed.