The recent development of a powerful and flexible genome editing technique (the CRISP-cas9 method) accelerates tremendously the production of animal models and will significantly enhance the perspectives of (somatic) gene ...

Paul de Brem Alain Kaufmann, vous êtes le directeur de l’Interface sciences-société de l’Université de Lausanne, un département de la présidence de l’université. Vous appartenez aussi au centre d’évaluation des choix ...

Paul de Brem Mr Hilgartner, you are a Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and you examine the social dimension and politics of contemporary and emerging science and technology, ...

Targeted modification of genes (“gene editing”) is made much easier by the recently developed CRISPR-Cas9 system. This has raised alarm about possible uses of this technology for germline modification of the human genome; ...