مشروع الجينوم البشري : بين التقدم العلمي و المأزق الأخلاقي

Abstract EN

The Human Genome Project aims to study the composition and functions of genes, determine their number and chromosome locations, and study the genetic code involved in them.

The project witnessed fierce competition between governmental and private institutions, using the fastest computer in the world to analyze and study human genes.

In 2003, the US National Institute of Health announced that it was able to complete the human genome project and finish deciphering and scheduling nearly the entire human genetic stock.

Scientists described this discovery as the largest scientific breakthrough in which the world welcomes the new millennium.

However, these discoveries, at the same time, raise moral and legal problems, including those related to the right to respect for human dignity and the right to privacy.

Others may affect legal systems that are well established in society, such as marriage, lineage, family, and inheritance.

This has led to voices of individuals and groups across the world expressing its fear of the inhuman repercussions of scientific discoveries in biology and the human genome project in particular.

This concern has been translated through charters and declarations issued by the United Nations General Assembly related to the protection of human rights and the use of scientific and technological progress for the benefit of humanity