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Genetic Enhancement

"Genetic Enhancement" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The use of genetic methodologies to improve functional capacities of an organism rather than to treat disease.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Genetic Enhancement" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Genetic Enhancement" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 15 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2006 and 2012 and 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.