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    Genetic engineering is an alluring and powerful branch of science and technology. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines genetic engineering as, “the group of applied techniques of genetics and biotechnology used to cut up and join together genetic material...from one or more species of organism and to introduce the result into an organism in order to change one or more of its characteristics”. Genetic engineering has led to some of the most remarkable advancements in agriculture and medicine.…

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    Food Biotechnology is a process by which foods are created or modified to enhance crop production, nutritional value, safety, and/or taste. These foods are considered genetically engineered (GE), or genetically modified (GM). Genetic engineering modifies the genetic material of living cells to produce new substances or perform new functions. As with most “new” technological advances, genetic engineering has its advantages and disadvantages and is currently a hot topic of debate with regard to…

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    Everyone Can’t Be Super Seeking perfection in an imperfect world has been a massive dilemma in today’s society. The rapid development of technology in this generation has created many new opportunities for genetic engineering. In California, a personal-genomics organization has been awarded a U.S. patent for techniques used in fertility clinics to create babies with selected traits. This human modification will lead to the controversial idea of designer children with artificial attributes.…

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    Deciding Actively Listening for the Public Voice, by Robert Cook-Deegan and Jane Maienschein, discusses the issue of genetic engineering and the ethical dilemma and how the United States, government, and people are interacting in the struggle of the ethics behind genetic engineering. The authors present the facts that genetic engineering has laid in the grey area ever since it was first brought to in lab, and still continues to sit in that grey area. Genetic Engineering will occasionally pop up…

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    Another writer, Alice Rawsthorn, asks what the true definition of an artist is in this modern world, deciding that it can be anyone. Through her piece, “Can Anybody be a Designer?” Rawsthorn discusses “Unnamed,” an exhibition held in South Korea. This exhibition explores innovation in places that one would normally never look; the code involved in a computer virus can be just as majestic as a rainbow barcode where each color signifies one of the four nucleotides of DNA (adenine, thymine, guanine…

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    Flowers For Algernon

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    Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. In the short story “Flowers For Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes, there is an intellectually disabled man named Charlie Gordon that is also going to be operated on to promote his intelligence. As informed scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of babies. That means that people are making their babies with requested traits: intelligence, eye color, athleticism, and disease prevention. They are known as designer babies. As…

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    Super Babies What are designer babies? Francis Fukuyama states, "That is, geneticists will identify the gene for a characteristic like intelligence, height, hair color, aggression, or self-esteem and use this knowledge to create a better version of the child" (674). The question is whether designer babies is natural or not, while they may some advantages like reducing the risk of certain diseases and changing favorable traits; they also have some disadvantages that come along the way. When…

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    The themes of Frankenstein are still relevant today because they are asking if it is right to do something just because you have the means to do it. In other words should we do something just because we can? I believe this is the same about designer babies. In some cases it can be good in ways that we can take genes that are cancerous and remove them. But then there are people who want to choose what color eyes their child has and in those cases it doesn't really make sense because if everyone…

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    lunch time crowd that they had discovered the secret to life. How DNA changed the world To begin with scientists used to have no understanding of what caused distinct patterns of inheritance. They knew that a DNA molecule was simple. Then Watson-Crick discovered how the molecules could encode information in the copious quantities necessary to program a living cell. Thus showing that DNA records genetic information in the form of a four letter…

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    Since the late 1900’s genetically modified babies has been of interest among large quantity of the world’s population. Genetically modified babies are a “baby whose genetic makeup has been selected in order to eradicate a particular defect or to ensure that a particular gene is present” (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). The creation of genetically modified babies was originally created to eradicate inheritable diseases of a child before the development of the embryo begun. This technology has allowed…

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