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GENETIC technologies could be exploited in the future to produce more intelligent, stronger and attractive offspring, with better regulation needed to guard against the dangers, a leading fertility expert has warned.
Professor Lord Robert Winston will this week give a lecture at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where he will warn that current controls will not be able to keep pace with advances in reproductive technologies. He will say a “form of eugenics” could lead to people wanting to modify their children to enhance “desirable characteristics” such as intelligence and beauty.
But Prof Winston said this form of eugenics – improving human qualities through the reproductive process – could have serious implications for the individuals involved and society in general.
The talk on Wednesday, part of a lecture series called Sex in Three Cities, has been organised by the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF). Speaking to The Scotsman, Prof Winston said the reproductive process had been manipulated in different ways throughout history.
“I am going to argue that it is an issue that is more serious now in some ways...
Professor Lord Robert Winston will this week give a lecture at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, where he will warn that current controls will not be able to keep pace with advances in reproductive technologies. He will say a “form of eugenics” could lead to people wanting to modify their children to enhance “desirable characteristics” such as intelligence and beauty.
But Prof Winston said this form of eugenics – improving human qualities through the reproductive process – could have serious implications for the individuals involved and society in general.
The talk on Wednesday, part of a lecture series called Sex in Three Cities, has been organised by the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF). Speaking to The Scotsman, Prof Winston said the reproductive process had been manipulated in different ways throughout history.
“I am going to argue that it is an issue that is more serious now in some ways...