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into human eggs that make kids smarter, stronger, faster,
healthier or happier than their parents. In the world dominated
by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids
every advantage. And there is hardly a religion on the planet
that does not exhort its believers to enhance the welfare of their
children. The antidote to the blind application of genetic
engineering is to start talking about what should and should not
be allowed, who will pay and what standards ought to apply to
those who want to advertise and sell utopian children. The right
response to ANDi is not legislation to stop nuts but
conversation that will teach us how best to control our selves.

In the part VII of the book, the author talked about the
issue of “Unethical policies undermine value of genetic
testing”. Scientists have now found a gene that’s responsible
for the most deadly form of breast cancer: inflammatory breast
cancer (IBC). IBC accounts for just 6 percent of the breast
cancer diagnoses in the United States each year, the this form
of cancer is much deadlier than other types of breast tumors.
Only 45 percent of women with IBC survive more than five
years, The bit of DNA responsible for this virulent form of
breast cancer is called the RhoC GTPase gene, All women have
this gene, but those with IBC have too many copies. This
causes the body to overproduce a chemical that lets cancer cells
grow rapidly and spread quickly. With this discovery, it will
soon be possible to test women at risk for breast cancer to see

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