Pop
quiz: you have a history of cancer in your family. You want to have
children. Science has progressed to the point where you can alter your
unborn child's genetics so that they will be born without the
particular gene that causes the particular type of cancer in your
bloodline. What do you do?
This is no longer a hypothetical
question. A baby girl was just born in Britain without the defective
BRCA1 gene, which causes cancer in 50 to 85 percent of girls, according
to London's Daily Mail.
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