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Essay Archive - The Promise of Genetic Engineering
The Promise of Genetic Engineering
A girl is born without Tay-Sachs disease, a devasting genetic
disorder that has decimated a lot of babies worldwide. A leukemia patient
has defective bone marrow replaced with healthy bone marrow that was cloned
from tissue from her own cells. These futuristic scenarios are not part of
the debate for genetic engineering but they should be. Many people are
afraid that somebody will clone Hitler or some evil person, but that is far
from the fact. Genetic engineering can be used to make many aspects of
human life better, including saving lives.
The rapid development of h....
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