Christopher Gyngell

Emerging moral status issues

Julian J Koplin, Christopher Gyngell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Monash Bioethics Review

Many controversies in bioethics turn on questions of moral status. Some moral status issues have received extensive bioethical att..

Genetics experience impacts attitudes towards germline gene editing: a survey of over 1500 members of the public

Abbie Jedwab, Danya F Vears, Cheryl Tse, Christopher Gyngell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Human Genetics

Drugs, genes and screens: The ethics of preventing and treating spinal muscular atrophy

Christopher Gyngell, Zornitza Stark, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioethics

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common genetic disease that causes infant mortality. Its treatment and prevention repres..

Sex selection and non-invasive prenatal testing: A review of current practices, evidence, and ethical issues

Hilary Bowman-Smart, Julian Savulescu, Christopher Gyngell, Cara Mand, Martin B Delatycki

Journal article  |  2020  |  Prenatal Diagnosis

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can determine the sex of the fetus very accurately and very early in gestation. There are con..

Drawing the line on in vitro gametogenesis

Lauren Notini, Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioethics

Great inds think different: Preserving cognitive diversity in an age of gene editing

Jonathan Anomaly, Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioethics

It is likely that gene editing technologies will become viable in the current century. As scientists uncover the genetic contribut..

Germline Gene Editing and the Precautionary Principle

Julian J Koplin, Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioethics

The precautionary principle aims to influence decision‐making in contexts where some activity poses uncertain but potentially grav..

From public preferences to ethical policy

Julian Savulescu, Guy Kahane, Christopher Gyngell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Nature Human Behaviour

The moral case for sign language education

Hilary Bowman-Smart, Christopher Gyngell, Angela Morgan, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2019  |  Monash Bioethics Review

Here, a moral case is presented as to why sign languages such as Auslan should be made compulsory in general school curricula. Fir..

'Small cost to pay for peace of mind': Women's experiences with non-invasive prenatal testing

Hilary Bowman-Smart, Julian Savulescu, Cara Mand, Christopher Gyngell, Mark D Pertile, Sharon Lewis, Martin B Delatycki

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

BACKGROUND: Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has been available in Australia on a user-pays basis since 2012. Since its introd..