Chicago lab helps couples create made-to-order babies
There is a part of me that is happy for the family. there is another part of me which is terrified at the Pandora’s Box being opened up by something like this.

What next. Do we choose the colour of the skin, the eyes, the hair. Do we make babies like a food receipe “one gene of Einstein, one of Monroe, one of Micheal Jordan.

Do we grow life to harvest organs that help us live longer.

Do we grow life to do those things that we don’t like to do.

Do we burden an already burdened world with people living for longer than they would have otherwise.

Can parents now choose not have have female children. would this be preferable to female foeticide.

At the same time do we stop scientific curiousity? do we stop exploration? Do we stop trying to get to the “final frontier”?