EPISODE · Mar 3, 2021 · 38 MIN

Designer Babies

from The City Club of Eugene Podcast · host cityclubeugene

If we use CRISPR technology to improve, modify, delete or add DNA to a fetus, have we benefited or harmed our species? In this episode, Dr. Francoise Baylis, a bioethicist, walks us through the safety, efficacy and ethics we should consider when creating designer babies. Baylis is the 2021 Chair of the Wayne L. Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. Watch this episode on YouTube or the City Club of Eugene Facebook page. (This program was broadcast on Feb. 26, 2021)

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What are the implications of designer babies - humans whose DNA has been modified, deleted or added to? Dr. Francoise Baylis addresses the issue.

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