Designer Babies Research Paper

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Are designer babies good or bad for the human species and will we benefit from it? Is a question we been asking ourselves for over a hundred years. But, today I'm here to tell why it is absolutely crucial for your baby and beneficial for all your family members. First off, imagine this scenario. You go to the hospital to check on your soon-to-be-expected baby, and you discover that the baby has a deadly disease inside of her that could kill her within months or even days. What do you do? Well, that's the part where design babies step in and helps cure your baby. With the technology of designer babies, we could insert something called CRISPR, which is a very powerful tool that can edit genomes, and also allows researchers and scientists to very

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