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Views of the Swiss public towards gene editing

2025-09-30 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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There is little country-specific data about how the general public views gene editing therapies. In Autumn 2023 we randomly surveyed the Swiss public, using the Federal Register and stratifying by language region (German, French, Italian), gender and age. We present a representative sample of 3855 responses, including >4000 open-ended comments. When presented with 7 therapeutic options for somatic gene editing, 7% disagreed with all therapeutic options, and 35% supported them all. Most agreed wi...

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