‘Deep and disturbing questions’ surrounding diseases and designer babies examined at summit as experiments accept closer to altering human heredityAlternating the promise of cures for intractable diseases with anxiety about designer babies and eugenics,hundreds of scientists and ethicists from around the world began debating the boundaries of a revolutionary technology to edit the human genetic code.“We sense that we are close to being able to alter human heredity,” Nobel laureate David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology said Tuesday in opening an international summit to examine what he called “deep and disturbing questions”.
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Source: theguardian.com