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Babbage: Designer genes

Babbage from The Economist
Babbage from The Economist
Episode • Nov 6, 2019 • 23m
How far away are “designer babies” from being a reality? Host Kenneth Cukier explores the ethical questions around the applications of a genome-wide association study. Journalist and author Gaia Vince on how “cultural evolution” shapes society. Also, a solution to the problem of “concrete cancer

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