Implications of law's response to mitochondrial donation

Karinne Ludlow

doi:10.3390/laws13020020

Implications of law's response to mitochondrial donation

Karinne Ludlow

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Abstract

Changes to Australian law in 2022 made Australia the second country to expressly permit the clinical use of mitochondrial donation (MD), a technology that makes heritable changes to the human genome. This paper considers these changes in the context of Australia’s broader controls on human embryo use to provide insights into future regulatory responses to other emerging genetic technologies, which could be used in reproduction.

Original language	English
Article number	20
Number of pages	15
Journal	Laws
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13020020
Publication status	Published - Mar 2024

Keywords

legal regulation
mitochondrial donation
genome editing
genetic technology
embryo research

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