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Purpose: The purpose of the article is to highlight a debate going on within the scientific community and let people know the full implications of the new scientific 'discovery'.
Published: The article was published in Science Direct, a peer-reviewed journal, in August 2015.
Sources: This article cites over 60 sources, using the normal brackets at ends of sentences. It even provides the reader with direct links to some other websites to find extensive information on the germline editing restrictions in other countries.
Author: The author is Tetsuya Ishii and he works at Hokkaido University in Japan.
Audience: The intended audience is other fellow scientists all over the world, and, like me, students who are interested in the material he writes about.
Found through: I found this article after searching through Web of Science Scholarly articles about genome editing and its ethics.
My second article is called "Embryo editing sparks epic debate" and I searched on the Academic Search Complete database to find it.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to get the word out and inform people about such a huge and controversial scientific topic. It also informs quite efficiently.
Published: The article was published in Nature, an international science journal, on April 29, 2015. Sources: It cites reputable sources, such as other peer-reviewed scientific journals, and the references at the bottom include links to other direct articles about the same material.
Author: The authors are David Cyranoski, a journalist with the Nature international science journal, and Sara Reardon, is also a journalist with Nature international science journal and holds a masters degree in molecular biology.
Audience: The intended audience is not necessarily for fellow scientists, as it doesn't use as much science lingo, but more for the scientifically aware public.
Found through: I found this article after searching through the UA Academic Search Complete scholarly database for genome editing and ethics.
All this is missing are some spaces between paragraphs....
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