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The future of genetic enhancement is not in the West

  • Written by G. Owen Schaefer, Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore

Would you want to alter your future children’s genes to make them smarter, stronger or better-looking? As the state of the science brings prospects like these closer to reality, an international debate has been raging over the ethics of enhancing human capacities with biotechnologies such as so-called smart pills, brain implants and gene...

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