title: A Global Social Media Survey of Attitudes to Human Genome Editing.
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.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia; Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Tristan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McCaughey
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Sanfilippo
authors.affiliation: Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6150, Australia.
authors.forename: George E C
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Gooden
authors.affiliation: Systems Biology Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Budden
authors.affiliation: Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia; State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fenwick
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia.
authors.forename: Gwyneth
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.affiliation: School of Social Science, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Casimir
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: MacGregor
authors.affiliation: Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Si
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia; Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia.
authors.forename: Helena Hai
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia; Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6150, Australia.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pébay
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3002, Australia; Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6150, Australia; Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia. Electronic address: hewitt.alex@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Alex W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Hewitt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D000072669:Gene Editing; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D061108:Social Media; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult