{"id":71697,"date":"2018-05-30T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71697"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:56:00","slug":"recode-designer-babies-are-just-one-example-of-the-ethical-dilemmas-faced-by-the-genomics-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71697","title":{"rendered":"(Recode) Designer babies are just one example of the ethical dilemmas faced by the genomics industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"0xHiBX\">We could live in a future world where people pick and choose the traits their babies have, but it may not be the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2OQnQw\">It\u2019s just one of the many ethical dilemmas that Francis deSouza, CEO of genomics testing company Illumina, who was interviewed by CNBC\u2019s Christina Farr Wednesday at the\u00a0<strong>Code Conference\u00a0<\/strong>in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. llumina sells DNA sequencing technology to companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p id=\"iSoPWQ\">\u201cThere was a wealthy industrialist mogul from Silicon Valley who was curious about designer babies for him and his partner,\u201d said deSouza. \u201cWith that much power, there are lots of questions that we will have to address about what it means to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2018\/5\/30\/17386596\/genome-testing-illumina-code-conference-francis-desouza\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could live in a future world where people pick and choose the traits their babies have, but it may not be the right thing to do. It\u2019s just one of the many ethical dilemmas that Francis deSouza, CEO of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71697\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,101,589,168,104,114,96,98,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71699,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697\/revisions\/71699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}