Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

The topic of genetics always reminds me of the movie Gattaca, featuring Jude Law and Uma Thurman. The movie is a satirical projection of a society that classifies humans based on genetic make up, segregating individuals with a better genetic make up from those of a ‘lower’ class of genetics. Ultimately in the film people […]

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The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project is an International effort aimed at identifying and sequencing (ordering) all of the bases in the DNA. Technology and resources generated by the Human Genome Project and other genomics research are already having a major impact on research across the life sciences. The potential for commercial development […]

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Medical technology is something that is advancing on a day by day basis to prevent diseases, cure diseases, and all together extend human life. Designer babies was an idea that did not even seem possible 20 to 30 years ago. Today parents are now able to play the role of god and create their perfect […]

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In Chinese society, every parent want to have a boy in their family, for instance, if they have a new born baby, and that baby is a girl, they will very disappoint. In today’s society, many parents want to have a “choice” of their baby to be a girl or boy, because the new technology […]

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After reading chapter 2, and doing some research myself, I found the Human Genome Project (HGP) very interesting. By tracing the genetic makeup of humans, scientists can obtain clues on certain diseases and the predisposition of others. HGP was a huge project begun in 1990 by researchers trying to map out the human genome. I […]

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Imagine having your own “build a baby,” made just the way you would want it to be. You get to choose the sex of the child, the hair color, eye color, whether the child will be tall or short, how intelligent they will be, the personality they will have, favorable traits the child will have […]

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Technology is definitely growing. But is it for the better? There doesn’t seem to be a limit to the possibilities of where technology can take us. This idea of the “designer” babies has been a growing concern for many years. The thought of a “perfect” world is triggering the lives of every new born. Wouldn’t […]

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The advancement of medical technology has made it possible for parents to design their babies.  By manipulating the genes in our DNA, mothers and fathers can choose the traits they want their children to have.  This new process could be either beneficial or detrimental to the babies and their parents.  For example, if the offspring […]

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The human genome project was a project that started in October 1990 and was not finished until 13 years later in 2003. But researchers continued to conduct tests on each pair of chromosomes up until 2008. The initial goals of the project were to identify all the genes in the human DNA, and also determine […]

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“The prospect of designer babies, like many of the ethical conundrums posed by the genetic revolution, is confronting the world so rapidly that doctors, ethicists, religious leaders and politicians are just starting to grapple with the implications–and trying to decide how they feel about it all.” TIME Magazine The concept of a “designer baby” is becoming […]

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