This is the most interesting and exciting concept of delivering babies that you might not have ever learned or assumed to have existed. What if you could have a baby, whom you dreamt of having? Is that possible? Of course, anything could be achievable with the research progressing at a fast pace.
We are pretty aware of designer jewellery, designer clothes. We tend to customise everything we wanted to own, but what about a baby? Can we design a baby, delete unwanted genes, insert the genes only what we fancy, include traits like intelligence, beauty, etc.? Yes, all these are going to happen after the next 20 years.
The concept called 'designer babies' is now the talking point in countries like the UK and US. Mothers will be hopefully able to choose embryos based the preferences like sex, intelligence, disease risk and other key traits.
'Designer baby' is an embryo that is genetically engineered for specific traits and implanted in the mother's womb via In-vitro Fertilization (IVF). This can seem like a science-fiction concept, but this could become a reality after 20 to 40 years, said Professor Henry Greely from Standard University, who works in Bioethics.
Mothers can discard the embryos that are at risk of genetic disorders like Sickle Cell Anemia, Cystic Fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease, Thalassemia, etc. This procedure increases the life expectancy of the individuals as only embryos that are fittest will survive.
Designer babies are legal in the UK and in the US, there are no fixed set of regulations but federal fund cannot be utilized for the research. In the UK, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) allowed a group of researchers to carry out research to genetically edit human embryos.
We are pretty aware of designer jewellery, designer clothes. We tend to customise everything we wanted to own, but what about a baby? Can we design a baby, delete unwanted genes, insert the genes only what we fancy, include traits like intelligence, beauty, etc.? Yes, all these are going to happen after the next 20 years.
The concept called 'designer babies' is now the talking point in countries like the UK and US. Mothers will be hopefully able to choose embryos based the preferences like sex, intelligence, disease risk and other key traits.
'Designer baby' is an embryo that is genetically engineered for specific traits and implanted in the mother's womb via In-vitro Fertilization (IVF). This can seem like a science-fiction concept, but this could become a reality after 20 to 40 years, said Professor Henry Greely from Standard University, who works in Bioethics.
Mothers can discard the embryos that are at risk of genetic disorders like Sickle Cell Anemia, Cystic Fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease, Thalassemia, etc. This procedure increases the life expectancy of the individuals as only embryos that are fittest will survive.
Designer babies are legal in the UK and in the US, there are no fixed set of regulations but federal fund cannot be utilized for the research. In the UK, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) allowed a group of researchers to carry out research to genetically edit human embryos.
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