While the development of new genome-editing technology that could one day ensure that children do not inherit unwanted diseases and disorder sounds like a magnificent breakthrough, one scientist is warning that the latest technology runs the risk of eliminating future geniuses like Thomas Edison and Stephen Hawking.
According to Dr. Jim Kozubek, author of Modern Prometheus, eliminating conditions such as depression, autism, schizophrenia or Asperger through the new Crispr-Cas9 human genome editing technology runs the risk of seeing future generations of geniuses wiped out.
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