A global social media survey of attitudes to human genome editing

T McCaughey; PG Sanfilippo; GEC Gooden; DM Budden; L Fan; E Fenwick; G Rees; C MacGregor; L Si; C Chen; HH Liang; T Baldwin; A Pébay; AW Hewitt

Journal article

A global social media survey of attitudes to human genome editing

T McCaughey, PG Sanfilippo, GEC Gooden, DM Budden, L Fan, E Fenwick, G Rees, C MacGregor, L Si, C Chen, HH Liang, T Baldwin, A Pébay, AW Hewitt

Cell Stem Cell | CELL PRESS | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.04.011

Abstract

Ongoing breakthroughs with CRISPR/Cas-based editing could potentially revolutionize modern medicine, but there are many questions to resolve about the ethical implications for its therapeutic application. We conducted a worldwide online survey of over 12,000 people recruited via social media to gauge attitudes toward this technology and discuss our findings here.