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The Ethics of Playing God
We're not epigenetically, we don't change genes. Where we can change genes is with the technology of gene editing. It's a really interesting field and it's an ethically incredibly fraught field. I'm never convinced by the concerns around we shouldn't be playing God because that's what we've always done. We somehow feel that that is messing with the basic essence of us. And I don't know why we feel that.