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Is It Ethically Unacceptable to Genetically Alter an Embryo? Does It Turn Children Into 'Designed Products'?

by dragonfly
Posted: Tue., May 13, 2008, 08:19 am

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Topics: Maternity / Parenting, Reproductive System, abnormal embryo, designed objects, designer babies

Yesterday, The Associated Press reported that scientists genetically altered a human embryo for the first time. The lead in the research said the goal was to see if a gene introduced into an abnormal embryo could be traced in stem cells that are harvested from the embryo. Such work could help shed light on why abnormal embryos fail to develop, he said.

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