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Moving Closer to Genetically Engineered 'Designer Babies'

In an article for Healthline, Dr. Robert Klitzman, director of the Masters of Science in Bioethics program at Columbia University, weighed in on the issue of genetically engineering humans: “These questions are difficult because they pit the freedom of future parents to do what they want, against concerns that some other people have that manipulating the genes of future generations is immoral or dangerous."