Human Genome Project 2
Beginning of paper
It all started back in 1953 with two men by the names of
James D. Watson and Francis Crick when they discovered the
double-helical structure of DNA. Little did they know they were
opening the door to the creation of a perfect world. In 1986,
the Human Genome Project, led up by the National Instit ....
Middle of paper
.... discovery take us? What
will come of the world if designer babies become standard
procedure?
The earliest and maybe simplest use of genetic manipulation
was in the selection of the sex of an unborn child. In Vitro
Fertilization(IVF - A procedure in which a woman’s eggs are
removed from her body, fertilized outside using sperm from her
husband or another donor, and then transferred back to her body.)
was originally limited to couples that were infertile. Even the
us ....
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