Life is its own secret. But us humans want to know. We have a hunger to know and ultimately control everything, and this almost defines us as a species. The ultimate want is to control ourselves. How we live and how we breed and how we form and grow.
Gene technology is here to stay.
The new tools are in our hands. We should be very wary about playing God. How they interact, what they control and what controls them. Sickle cell anaemia develops in people who have two copies of the gene. But a single copy can protect the carrier against malaria.