Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Designer Babies: The Future Of Genetics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/590919.stm

The BBC’s science programme Horizon prediscts the power to change the shape and destiny of the human species will be within the grasp of genetic scientist in just a couple of decades. In vitro fertilization means that where a family had a history of diseases, one cell could be removed and change the future of the disease. Parents that have children with crippling terminal illnesses, they can rule out the possibilities of having another child with the same condition. They have done plenty of these experiments on non-human animals like the jellyfish. Cloning may well provide an answer to the problems presented by the inefficiency of injecting genes into embryos.

The article had some really good points on why designer babies are bad. They only have one good reason for designer babies. The article is very bias and informing

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