... out flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bounding off satellites, it was the start of the fiercest scientific debate medical ethics the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A brave new world of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed if not just around the corner ... of outrageous books, movies and television shows, beginning with Aldous Huxleys "Brave New World- published 61 years ago continuing through the box-office behemoth Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love at cries - even sci-fi parod...

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... with genes for the purpose of immortality, that are described in worldwide articles and research theses, dangerously resemble some of Huxley's visions. The embryos in Brave New World, sat in test tubes by the thousands waiting to be manipulated and born into a hierarchical society. The amount of oxygen the embryos are exposed to decides their intelligence and therefore their status in ... to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness- (Huxley, Brave New World, 1969, pg 228). Without knowing the emotions of joy and happiness, of poetry and love, the citizens in Hux...

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