I want them to have piano lessons. I want the best for my child. Certainly not yet, but gene therapy technology is racing ahead faster than anyone thought possible. It's a technology that is in its absolute infancy. Somebody is born with a genetic message that's just wrong, bad for the organism.
Gene therapy goes in, finds what's missing at the molecular level and puts it back.
The possibilities make some people nervous, but says most of the revolution is still a way off. We have time. We haven't lost the ability to regulate control, set limits on where the technology is going. What is perhaps more fearful is that maybe we don't want to. Americans like a free-wheeling, open ended society.