Pros And Cons Of Gene Editing

The newest and largest controversy that the world faces is the concept of gene editing. As noted, Harvard’s medical school has access to CRISPR, in short, a machine that allows scientists to edit in or out genes. This is more than just small livestock, it’s growing to humans; the United Kingdom has already received and issued licenses to perform such tasks on embryos. The goal is to be able to edit out major disease and ‘flaws’ of the human genome. The arguments in the scientific community don’t lie in the ethics of the testing as much as the biology and societal factors. As stated, humans are speeding up the process of evolution while, in turn, slowing natural selection. We see change as such a critical aspect so we can permit nature’s idea

Many would argue that Captain America, the movie and comic are a positive outcome of gene editing and creating superhumans, but this is a warning because the story tells us that other countries can access this for diabolical purposes; the main idea of this is that countries will create mass armies of superhumans, not only creating and elite class, but another way humans can annihilate themselves in the long run. Even take how science is ultimately a social force; societies live off of the idea that science will save us all and that there is hope, and of course it can. Single mothers and males who cannot produce adequate sperm now have the resources to obtain a child of their own through the help of sperm banks, and this can be helpful. But unless cryobanks only make sure that candidates do not choose all of the specifics of the donor, there’s no way it can reflect nature. Beauty standards, specifically of the west, have been enforced for centuries and is fueled by capitalism and industry in the modern world. Asia already has a gender ratio imbalance epidemic that’s been seemingly unrepairable. In the last century, genocides like the Holocaust have been fueled by the desire for the ‘ideal’ race and community. History has told us that repairing the mistakes we’ve already made is most critical. When one thousand Americans were asked in a January 2016 poll conducted by Harvard Stats, 83 percent of them said no to altering genes to make a more intelligent child; and 82 percent said that the government should not fund the research of such genome