Genetic Disease

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In the uk you can have pre-implantation selection of your embryo. It's a pretty tough process to go through for a couple and in particular for the woman. The only people who could not be help by this technology are those with genetic disease or if they both have one that will make them ill so huntington's career which is a horrible neurodegenerative disease. If couples want their own child then don't use this very dangerous technology because it is incredibly dangerous something that should be applied but adopt a child there are plenty of children who are healthy and who need adoption.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.