It may soon be possible to improve human beings through genetic engineering. An influential science advisory group formed by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine lent its support to a once-unthinkable proposition: clinical efforts to engineer humans with inheritable genetic traits. The New York Times reports the group endorsed the alteration of human eggs, sperm and embryos — but only to prevent babies from being born with genes known to cause serious diseases and disability, only when no “reasonable alternative” exists, and only when a plan is in place to track the effects of the procedure through multiple generations.
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