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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980505
Author:Jeremy Rifkin

NBC recently aired an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel about a genetically engineered future society. When Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, no one could have imagined that the scientific insights and technological know-how would exist by the end of this century that could make his vision real.

Many leading molecular biologists and geneticists met a few weeks ago at the University of California at Los Angeles to discuss the prospect of making genetic changes in the human "germ line" - sperm and eggs - that would be passed on to future generations. The ability to ...

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