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313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

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I'm Not a Bit of My Chain of Thought

In many countries there is a law against genetically manipulating embryos but in the u.s. there's no barrier to you to this happening. There are real possibilities for biomedicine, not just for manipulating genes of the next generation which is what her john kwe did so you change every cell oh he didn't but you're supposed to change every cell in the embryo so it's the same in your new version. The moral history uh it's not my subtitle that's the u.S.a. I see we did we didn't have a slight dispute over that i don't i'm sure they weren't mind but maybe i mean no ididn't like the title either.

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