Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Designer Baby, Crispr, Assisted Human Reproduction Act
17 Dec 2018
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Essentially doctors who charge patients for medically necessary procedures could face fines of ,000. As soon as they announced this, cambie surgery centre and others involved in the lawsuit made a claim asking for an injunction given that the case is currently before the b. c. This week they found in favour of the cambie surgery centre and they will have to wait until this case gets settled before they can possibly enforce this act. Video: crispr pregnancy: a couple in china wanted to have a baby, but the husband was hiv positive. When the couple underwent ivf, a scientist injected a protein to open the doorway to do gene surgery" where the gene to prevent hiv infection was changed, and then transplanted the embryos into the womb. They had twins, who were born healthy and safe. Gene surgery may be the only way to heal an inheritable disease.
