Development and perspectives of theological bioethics
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The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a great revolution supported by science, which is called biothechnological revolution and our century a biotechnological century (1). Enormous advances in biology, especially in genetics have led to homological and heterological procreation in laboratory, human genome manipulation, genetic engineering, animal but also human cloning, and scientific research on human embryos for therapeutic or eugenic purposes.
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