Creer Darwin: genetic engineering and the future of mankind. Metzl D.

Our body is akin to the lottery: From the start you can win health and even genius. But no one is safe from genetic diseases. Do we want this for our children?

Jamie Metzl believes that you should not rely on a "blind watchmaker", having in our hands the opportunity to control the genome, like a program code. Evolution, which is controlled, will give a person the opportunity not only to eradicate some diseases, but also to become more perfect - and happy. You just have to choose the most successful genes configuration. However, such a scenario is inevitably associated with risks: we can lose a gene whose importance we do not yet understand; The company will potentially share on “genetically property and poor”; States will begin the war for technology. That is why the development of genetic ethics should be carried out in parallel with laboratory studies. The change in humanity at the genetic level is no longer science fiction, but a natural consequence of the development of biotechnologies. It is time to arm the facts.