A National Bioethics Commission member addressed the ethical issues raised by genetics advances. Dr. Thomas H. Murray offered at a February 12 forum about advances in genetic research that have allowed scientists to map significant portions of DNA strands and to clone animals. Murray's biggest fear is that people will want to use genetic advances to manipulate genes for enhanced performance or in search of some ideal body size for particular sports.
Taller people get different treatment.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We'll hear many requests for genetic manipulations in the future. Murray started his discussion with a brief explanation of the Human Genome Project , which was created to map out all of the genes in humans. He said there are four chemical bases for genes, commonly referred to as A, T, C and G. Most genes consist of three of the four bases. Every word is three letters long, but some sentences run 100 words long.