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Health & Fitness > Medical Ethics Designer babies: Reflections on embryo screening during pregnancy

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Fast forward to the year 2112. Jimmy, a high school senior, is class president, a state swimming champion, and a budding scientist. He can swim faster and longer than anyone thought possible 100 years ago, and his intellect surpasses even the smartest people on the planet today. In the laboratory where Jimmy was conceived, scientists made sure his cells contained only the best genes. Jimmy's parents picked the traits they felt were most important for their son. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Yet, the announcement that scientists at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical C...

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