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Gillian Myers reflects on genetic engineering and its current and potential future applications. While genetic engineering has benefited crop production, meat production, and medicine, expanding human testing beyond treatment of genetic diseases could be problematic. Specifically, modifying common human genes for traits like intelligence and appearance raises ethical concerns and could hurt humanity, as depicted in many science fiction stories. However, using CRISPR to modify genetic diseases in embryos is

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