Designer Babies: Genetically Engineered Athletes Coming Soon

Here come the designer babies. If you think the wealth gap is bad now, wait until all the elites start genetically modifying their offspring to run faster and jump higher than your kids… Talk about a breakaway civilization.
Via The Conversation:
A team from China grabbed the headlines last month when it announced it had edited DNA in the nucleus of human embryos. Whatever the ethics of such research, the breakthrough raises the question of just how far we will take tampering with our genetic make-up?
The Chinese team’s work was done using a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (pronounced ‘crisper’) and the results were not spectacular – only four of the 86 eggs injected were successfully modified.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on May 25th, 2015.