Designer Babies, Version 1.0

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 27, 2002 @08:36AM from the wait-till-you-see-version-7 dept.

Stickerboy writes: "A 30 year-old woman in Chicago gave birth to a pre-pregnancy genetically screened and selected baby 17 months ago, which is being reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association today. Doctors at the Reproductive Genetics Institute in Chicago took 23 eggs from her, screened the eggs for a gene that causes an early form of Alzheimer's, and then fertilized and implanted the eggs back in her womb. Shades of the movie Gattaca - this is a good specific development, but the start of a very controversial trend. Read more about it in the Washington Post or read the abstract in JAMA."

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What gene combo do I need to by Unknown+Poltroon · 2002-02-27 08:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

get all the best parts of Cowboy Neal in my baby?

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Re:I want to make a baby with Anna Paquin by delphin42 · 2002-02-27 08:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

you lose, sorry!!!

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Re:all they did was screen for alzheimers? by xcomputer_man · 2002-02-27 08:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Or better still, they could have screened for
Troll gene and delivered the rest of us /.ers
from yet another lamer. :)

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OT - Your sig by Dyolf+Knip · 2002-02-27 17:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Where was that said in Fight Club? It doesn't ring a bell. A deleted scene, maybe?

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