Dec. 4: Ethics of designer genes

Posted December 4, 2014 11:20 am.

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Medical advances have allowed us to learn more about a fetus’s genetic blueprint, but bio-ethics experts say there’s a big gray area. Reported by Anne Lavrih.

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