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The appearance of the child can be edited at the gene level

26.07.2018

In the UK, scientists have come to the conclusion that it is not only possible, but necessary, to interfere with human DNA. In their opinion, such an intervention should only benefit the unborn baby.

At this stage, you can do anything with genes, scientific advances allow you to carry out such procedures. Basically, they are used to remove the genes of any hereditary diseases so that the child will never know what cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other genetic diseases are.

Many parents also want to interfere with the DNA not only to heal the child, but also to change the appearance of the future baby. For example, they can change the color of the eyes and hair or its height.

In their opinion, some amendments will help the child to better adapt to society, if, for example, he is not too low, as children are cruel. Or that the hair color was mother's, and father's eyes, and not vice versa.

Science can satisfy people's bizarre desires, and scientists at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics have decided it's OK to edit a child's appearance at the gene level.

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