The Case Against CRISPR Gene Editing, Part II

On designer babies, gene reference libraries, and more

Nita Jain
Nita Jain
Nov 3 · 7 min read

Speculation surrounding “designer babies” is based more in science fiction than scientific fact.

“Man is a maker and a selector and a designer, and the more rationally contrived and deliberate anything is, the more human it is.”

Joseph Fletcher, one of the founders of bioethics, 1971

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Medical Myths and Models

Probing existing medical paradigms to augment our understanding of health and disease

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