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Chapter 9 – Ethics – British Columbia and Canadian Cases Biomedical issues and Ethics Genome Editing Is it ethical to be manipulating DNA? Materials and bioengineering Stainless steel and titanium wire meshes expand to make stents. Here is a link to the American Heart Association. https://www.heart.org/-/media/data-import/downloadables/pe-abh-what-is-a-stent-ucm_300452.pdf Genome Editing and CRISPR https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/genetic-technologies/what-are-genetic-technologies/ A nice short video from The Royal Society explaining this British girl treated for leukemia using gene therapy One year later, still in remission. By Russ Logan January 2018. What is leukemia you ask? https://www.llscanada.org/leukemia CRISPR Explained by the Mayo Clinic https://interestingengineering.com/video/the-mayo-clinic-explains-crispr-in-a-way-you-can-understand https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how-to-inject-human-eyes-with-night-vision For a humourous take on this, John Oliver did a segment on CRISPR during his 2018 Last Week Tonight