1. HUMAN PERFECTION IN A GENETICALLY FLAWLESS WORLD
"O brave new world, that has such people in it - " William Shakespeare, The Tempest, quoted by Aldous Huxley " With technology exponentially growing, and the insatiable hunger for discovery and knowledge, the actual ... possibility of aging brought up by Leonard Hayflick. He discovered the internal clock of cells that tell it haw many times it can divide. Now there can be no limit on how many times cells divide. "Some work indicates that human cells given a copy of the telomerase gene can divide indefinitely, a step toward immortality ... (Silver, Remaking Eden, 1997, pg 10). While Huxley f...
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