Designed super-baby or Unpredictable monster

What I listened to / read

During a little free time before I took a shower, I had searched for the trend of science and medicine news. I found one topic that are very interested and can changed the belief of destiny that you ever known. I would like to share this new "Gene editing-and what it really means to rewrite the code of life" written by Ian Sample from The Guardian.

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What it says

Recently, scientists found the way to eliminate the birth defects or genetic disorders both of embryonic and adult stages, and prevent the defective gene transmission. this method could help millions of children from the genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and muscular dystrophy. it had been also used as a tool for overcoming cancer and HIV infection. Interestingly, this strategy could be used to design what your baby could be. It did not only have an advantage for medicine purpose, but it also important for agriculture. By doing this, it made the crop could be grown faster, safer and more precise in crop feature more than a conventional genetic modification. this method are called "Crispr-Cas9". this method used a  guild DNA to find the specific region on genome before used the enzyme to cut the specific sequences before repairing with the desired piece of DNA. this method seemed to be great way to cure the disease permanently, but there were some issues that researchers need to solve before using as a clinical procedure.

My response 

After I have read it, I thought that this scientific story passed a lot of errors and trials, collected the experiences of many expertise, but it still keeps on a long journey. In my point, as a scientist, Crispr-Cas9 technique is more than an usual way for us to find the role and interaction of specific gene. it is an exceptional tool to access to the secret of nature to control and design your life at the cellular and molecular level. this controller can cure the genetic disorders and birth defects that the recent treatment can only repress the symptom or reduce disease progression rate. it can improve the life quality of patients. apart from the advantage on disease, gene editing can be used as a designer material for design the baby to be smarter, healthier, or even genius. As parent view, those features is what parent want to find within their baby. hence, this method seems to rise a hope for them. However, there are some questions that appear on my mind. how can we confirm that the edition is not off-target? How we can make sure whether the genetic modification is on the right time and right place? How can we know that the baby will born without undesired  severe diseases or awful features? and if the gene editing goes wrong, what does the baby confront to the social issues?

these questions are a challenge for all human. they need to try to discover and take a lot of experiments before they turn into the clinical trails and commercialization. For parents, they need to understand the way that gene editing materials do and the risk that you will get. they also need to prepare after designing your baby. if the super-baby is borne that is a lucky, but if he/she born as unpredictable monster, they need to prepare and make sure that this baby can live in the society happily and he/she does not make the unpredictable events.