Rivista di formazione e aggiornamento professionale del pediatra e del medico di base, fondata nel 1982. In collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale Pediatri.
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Gen-Etica: di chi sono i geni?

GEN-ETHICS: WHOM DO GENES BELONG TO?

BRUNO DALLAPICCOLA

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Sezione di Genetica Medica, Università “La Sapienza” e Istituto CSS-Mendel, Roma

Novembre 2003 - pagg. 575 -580

Abstract
The Author offers an overview of all the main ethical issues related to the recent advances of genetics. Special attention is paid to the following: options in assisted fertilization, recent developments in our understanding of genetic basis of disease, human and therapeutic clonation, diagnostic and therapeutic prospects of genetic manipulation.
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