Gene editing

Scientists Suggest Editing Human Genetic Code to Prevent Heart Attacks : transhumanism (reddit.com)article from futurism.com posted to r/transhumanism• Posted by u/estasfuera 4 hours ago</blockquote>"When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present."
"William Hurlbut, a Stanford University physician and ethicist who was in regular communication with He starting in 2017 and is familiar with the time line of events. Hurlbut knows the day the third baby was conceived but won’t make it public, because of the risk the information could identify the parents and child." [Jul3 2019]
"Elizabeth Bridges reads an implication of gene editing in the development of the homogenous community, based on euphemistic language throughout the novel. She suggests that the release of those who do not fit societal conventions represents the ways that eugenics were employed by the society of The Giver. Robert Gadowski suggests that government control of bodies inhibits the society’s freedoms. He argues that through bio-technical planning, people’s bodies become vehicles of state control rather than the locus of their autonomy."
- Wikipedia article on Lois Lowry's "The Giver"
== Rhizomata ==
Biodoomerism; Eugenics