Gene Therapy
These women...want nothing more than to be mothers; their husbands are equally fervent about being fathers. Their dreams are not of just any child. They want a child or children of their flesh, a child with the father’s chin and mother’s knack for mental arithmetic. —Barbara Stewart, New York Times (Silver, 211) Melissa and her husband Curtis wanted to have a baby. Like any other couples that are considering parenthood, they had hopes for their unborn child. They both wanted a girl, and they wanted to name her Alice. Melissa wanted Alice to excel at music, and Curtis wanted Alice to be born with temperament and cognitive attributes that would be valuable in the business world. However, Melissa and Curtis had an advantage over other potential parents. They had the technology to make their dreams a reality. Scientists in a laboratory harvested 84 of Melissa’s eggs, and fertilized them with Curtis’s sperm. The fertilized eggs developed into embryos, and were frozen at -320°F. A sample of DNA was taken from each embryo. The DNA was then analyzed to obtain the exact genetic code for all 84 of Melissa and Curtis’s potential children. The information was used to create genetic profiles for the 84 embryos. The profiles inc
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Approximate Word count = 2219
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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