Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family history of muscular dystrophy in a couple who want a child, savvy physicians will enlist a trained specialist like Fox. These specialists can explore with the couple what it means to care for a child with muscular dystrophy (under improved treatment, such children can survive well into middle age...
Ever since publication of Huxley's dystopian novel, this has been the standard eugenics nightmare: government social engineers subverting individual reproductive choice for the sake of an eerie social efficiency. But as the age of genetic engineering dawns, the more plausible nightmare is roughly the opposite: that a laissez-faire eugenics will emerge from the free choices of millions of parents. Indeed, the only way to avoid Huxleyesque social stratification may be for the government to get into the eugenics business...
...similar types of procedures being performed today on more than 3,000 patients around the world. These numbers reflect a growing optimism that gene therapy, a medical discipline that emerged with great fanfare in the early 1990s but fell out of favor during its adolescence, is finally coming of age. "Twenty years from now gene therapy will have revolutionized the practice of medicine," predicts Dr. W. French Anderson, director of gene therapy at the University of Southern California medical school, who is perhaps the most outspoken champion of this slowly maturing medical art. "Virtually every disease will have gene therapy...
...days of birth and there is no reason to think that death was caused by an inherited defect, would it then be acceptable to make a copy? Is it practical to frame legislation that would prevent copying of adults or older children, but allow copying of infants? At what age would a child be too old to be copied in the event of death...
Moreover, there is a lot we do not know about the effects of cloning, especially in terms of aging. As we grow older, changes occur in our cells that reduce the number of times they can reproduce. This clock of age is reset by normal reproduction during the production of sperm and eggs; that is why children of each new generation have a full life span. It is not yet known whether aging is reversed during cloning or if the clone's natural life is shortened by the years its parent has already lived. Then there is the problem...