As scientific technology develops, we are getting closer to being able to genetically modify humans. Genetically modifying humans is a process similar to in vitro fertilization. U.K scientists have already began genetically modifying human embryos. A huge benefit from genetic modification is crafting humans from the ground up, giving them specific traits that were desired. This would however, eventually destroy the evolutionary process because any human could change and adapt by having their DNA changed. We could eliminate numerous inherited diseases that run it families by modifying a child's genome to make him/her resistant through germ-line engineering, a process where sperm, egg or very early embryo is genetically modified, with the genes showing up in the child and the succeeding generation after. Also genetic engineering can be very impactful on our future's. With genetic engineering, it would be possible for us to engineer certain cells that would be resistant to certain types of diseases. DNA modification has benefits and threats to it as well. Not everything about DNA modification helps humanity. Many scientists worry about the ethics of DNA modification, and also the unwanted mutations it may occur. |
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