Playing God: Has Science Crossed the Line?
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The talk surveys recent advances in genetic and synthetic biology: gene editing to remove defects and enhance humans, de-extinction and saving endangered species, altering the genetic code and DNA alphabet, population-level gene engineering and mutagenic chain reactions, synthetic chromosomes and removal of genetic ‘‘junk,’’ cloning and three-parent embryos. It frames these technologies as raising ethical and practical questions about whether humanity should continue ‘‘playing God’’ or take control of those capabilities.
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