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1. Designer Babies and Genetic Engineering science By: Matea Bagaric, 4mm

2. Overview • What is a designer baby? • Real-life situation • Designer babies today • Advantages and disadvantages of designer babies • For or against designer babies? • HFEA • The Fertility Institutes • Determination • Word

3. What is a Designer Baby? A babe whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected past genetic technology to ensure the presence or absence of item genes or characteristics Knowledge Outcome: Should couples be given the right to alter their children'due south genes to their own preference and liking?

4. Real-Life Situation • In October of 2000, Adam Nash was the earth's first designer babe built-in past pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) • PGD refers to screening procedures performed on embryos to check for genetic disorders prior to implantation and pregnancy • Combined with in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a process by which egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb • Embryos grown to the eight-cell stage and are checked for genetic disorders • It'due south a major treatment in infertility, but is now being used for other reasons

5. Existent-Life Situation • His parents were both carriers of Fanconi Anemia and passed this genetic disorder onto their daughter, Molly • To relieve Molly, a os marrow transplant was needed • Doctors fertilized several of Adam's mother's eggs, but only implanted the one that was both genetically healthy and a match equally a donor • This means the other embryos that could have grown into human beings were killed • Now, Molly is good for you and has been given a second chance at life

6. Designer Babies Today • To date, genetic technology has only been used to treat serious affliction in children • Discoveries about the influence of genes on man traits opens the possibility of transferring these techniques to human beings • Developing engineering makes it possible to alter anything from gender to illness, and eventually advent, personality, and IQ • Some believe that parents will inevitably want to choose their children'due south genes, thus creating designer babies

8. Advantages • Allows couples who tin't conceive ordinarily to take children • Allows couples to balance gender in their families • Genetic screening reduces the baby's chances of being born with a serious genetic disease • Increases the likelihood of a healthy infant • Reduces chances of miscarriage • Reduces chances of termination due to disorder • Tin can be used to relieve lives

9. Disadvantages • Moral and upstanding concerns: • Besides much like playing God • Killing embryos that could have grown into humans • Social concerns: • High price leads to gap in order • Could lead to eugenics: individuals are "bred" or designed to adapt social preferences • Genetically enhanced people may starting time to feel superior to those who oasis't been enhanced • Such groups of people may become prejudiced against i another due to a feeling of lost mutual humanity with non-enhanced people

10. Disadvantages • Safety concerns: • Tin can lead to ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome (OHSS) • Unskilled lab engineering could damage embryo during biopsy • The removal of cells from eight-cell embryos has implications for the well-being of people created past PGD

12. For or Against Designer Babies? • What is HFEA? • Stands for Human Fertilization & Embryology Potency • Defended to licensing and monitoring UK fertility clinics and all Uk research involving man embryos, and providing impartial and authoritative information to the public • Genetic applied science not allowed under British law because of the possibility the child would be seen just equally a "medical production" • Caput of ethics and policy for the British Medical Association, Dr. Vivienne Nathanson says, "We would take very serious concerns that he is a article rather than a person"

13. For or Confronting Designer Babies? • James Yeandel, spokesperson for HFEA says, "An awarding for apply of PGD for a purpose such every bit creating a transplant match would have to be considered by the authority's licensing commission." • In 2004, HFEA considered a relaxation of regulations governing designer babies so that parents could screen embryos for genetic traits and use them every bit donor siblings • The say-so debated whether parents should exist allowed to test embryos solely for desirable characteristics and not just for genes that cause devastating illnesses at a young age • If approved, information technology would allow screening techniques to create babies whose umbilical cord blood could salvage the life of a sick sibling

14. For or Against Designer Babies? • What are the Fertility Institutes? • They provide a diverseness of fertility and infertility services, including PGD • They have cypher against the designer baby and have the world's leading, highly successful, and nearly respected gender choice programme (99.nine% accurateness) • Can be found in Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico • Couples volition exist able to select both the gender and physical traits of their children • Growth of PGD is unfettered past any state or federal regulations in the U.s.a.

15. For or Against Designer Babies? • Mark Hughes, a pioneer of the PGD procedure and director of Genesis Genetics Institute says, "Information technology'due south technically viable and it tin exist done," calculation that "no legitimate lab would get into it and, if they did, they'd be ostracized." • Fertility Institutes disagrees • "This is corrective medicine," says director Jeff Steinberg. "Others are frightened past the criticism but we have no problems with it." • Trait pick in babies "is a service," Steinberg says. "We intend to offer it soon." • In a contempo U.South. survey of 999 people who sought genetic counseling, a majority said they supported prenatal genetic tests for the elimination of serious diseases

16. For or Confronting Designer Babies? • Survey results: • 56% supported using genetic tests to counter blindness • 75% supported using genetic tests for mental retardation • 10% of respondents said they would want genetic testing for athletic ability • 10% voted for improved meridian • xiii% backed the approach to select for superior intelligence

17. Conclusion • Information technology seems unmoral and unethical to examination embryos for certain genes and to tamper with them • Engineering is still developing so condom concerns are loftier • Many children's lives could be saved • Fewer children would be born with genetic disorders • The idea is still new, and so it's hard to say who is right and who is wrong • In that location are many advantages and disadvantages of the designer infant, and we should keep an open up heed and unbiased attitude towards them

18. Word Questions: • Do y'all support the idea of designer babies? Why or why not? • Would you utilise genetic engineering science on your children simply to make them more intelligent or ameliorate looking? 

19. Bibliography • world wide web.givf.com/pgd/whatispgd.cfm • www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/agar.html • world wide web.articlecity.com/articles/parenting/article_1348.shtml • www.sciencecentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392351 • News.bbc.co.uk/2/howdy/health/954408.stm • www.hfea.gov.uk/ • http://online.wsj.com/commodity/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB123439771603075099.html

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