Genetic Modification In Brave New World

In Huxley’s novel Brave New World genetically modifying babies to perfection is key to a functioning society. In the United States, however, we’ve only gotten as far as getting rid of certain diseases. Statistics show that fifty-three percent of parents with no children under the age of eighteen would gene edit their baby to lower the risk of disease. Huxley’s novel implies that genetic modification leads to a seemingly perfect but also dysfunctional society; luckily, the U.S. cannot create designer babies, but gene editing bad mutations is attainable.

As The Director is giving a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, Mr. Foster tells the students about how the babies become who they are. He says, “We also predestine

Gene editing is “the use of biotechnological techniques to make changes to specific DNA sequences in the genome of a living organism.” ("Definition of GENE EDITING"). Gene editing will most likely not get to the point that parents can “custom order” their baby while it is in the womb. As of right now the “team of scientists in Oregon had successfully modified the DNA of a human embryo.” (Belluck). What they did was they “repair a single gene mutation on a single gene, a defect known to cause — by its lonesome — a serious, sometimes fatal, heart disease.” (Belluck). Which is, right now, the best thing the scientists can do for genetic

In the study they found thousands of medical conditions caused by inherited genetic mutation. The one that they eliminated was cardiomyopathy which is a very dangerous heart condition. ("New Developments in Human Gene Editing Face an Ethical and Regulatory Quagmire in the US"). In doing this they said that they still have concerns with the germ line in human-gene-editing, that the creation of designer babies is too much on the embryo. ("New Developments in Human Gene Editing Face an Ethical and Regulatory Quagmire in the