Designer Babies

Designer Babies

Update: 2025-04-21
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Episode 17 - Designer Babies


This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the ethics of parents being able to choose the genetic characteristics of their children. Is “germinal choice” good for parents, children, society? 


Show Notes:

He Jiankui and Gene-Edited Babies


Sandel Michael J. 2007. The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Cambrige: Harvard University Press


De-extinction of Direwolves 


 
Credits:

Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits

Produced by Jake Burley

Music by Jake Burley

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Designer Babies

Designer Babies

James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits