... : 1993). Once the news of this successful experiment was 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 ... horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby forming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policy-makers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. Bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology and prot...

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... insatiable hunger for discovery and knowledge, the actual nature of human beings is changing. Stories of stem-cell research, human-mouse embryo experiments and genetically engineered animals for consumption flood technology newspapers. Building electronic devices from single atoms, and playing around with DNA leads scientist down the inevitable path to new types of human life forms - but is that a ... Frankenstein should have ever created the monster. And the talk of creating human organs to transplant is a little reminiscent of the concepts in Aldous Huxley's novel. "Genetic engineerin...

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