What about designer babies and gene editing?

Advances in genetics and gene editing open real power to prevent disease and improve health. Igor Beuker predicts real medical benefit alongside serious ethical danger around enhancement and selection. The same tool that eliminates an inherited disease can also write inequality into DNA. He is firm. The governance conversation cannot lag the science, because once this genie escapes, it does not go back.

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