Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News
  • Published:

Future perfect or imperfect?

Nature Medicine volume 1, pages 186–187 (1995)Cite this article

Biology is pushing open the door to germline gene therapies that one day might eradicate disease genes not only from the sufferers but also from their descendants. Now society must decide whether to pursue these therapies.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Washington, DC

    Helen Gavaghan

Authors
  1. Helen Gavaghan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Gavaghan, H. Future perfect or imperfect?. Nat Med 1, 186–187 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0395-186

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0395-186

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing