Are Designer Babies Coming in the Future?Linda GeddesNew Scientist
Designer babies - are they a reality yet? A reply Author information: (1)Reproductive Genetics Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA. J Kahn - 《Reproductive Biomedicine Online》 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 Designing babies: what the future holds Advances in reproductive technology have opened new opportun...
Designer babies are babies that have been genetically engineered as fetuses to have certain characteristics. The controversy...
The inevitable rise of designer babies was proclaimed in 1978 after the birth of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, as the next step toward“a brave world where parents can select their child’s gender and traits.” The same situation occurred in 1994 when a 59-year-old British woman stret...
The notion of parents picking out genetically perfect babies may seem like science fiction, but bioethicists warn in a new report that some companies have already started to offer couples going through in vitro fertilization (IVF) the means to pick better embryos through polygenic scoring. ...
解析 C。原因:文章中提到“For example, some people worry that cloning could lead to the creation of "designer babies" with specific traits. Others worry that cloning could be used for unethical purposes, such as cloning humans for military or economic gain.”。
Creating “designer babies” with a revolutionary new genome-editing technique would be extremely difficult, according to the first U.S. experiment that tried to replace a disease-causing gene in a viable human embryo. Partial results of the study hadleaked outlast week, ahead of itspublication ...
Some people hope that in the future, diseases or birth defects could simply be “edited out”. However, others believe this could lead to so-called designer babies, giving parents the chance to choose everything from eye color to intelligence. ...
as more businesses look to the promise of digital fashion. Moreover, those virtual clothes won't just be for your video calls, but could eventually be worn all over the virtual world, and eventually, perhaps, viewed on your body in the real world through the Augmented Reality (AR) glasses...
we’re paying bakeries and luxury-events companies to rewrite the past for us and make our youthful memories more aesthetically pleasing, more geared towards the Instagram grid. The more time passes between the reality of our youth and our memories of it, the more fondness and theatricality we...