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Forgiveness, tolerance, and genetic enhancement

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 2016
Summary Genetic enhancement that aims to remove human weaknesses would possibly ruin many things that have considerable moral value. Certain mental processes, such as (1) the process of forgiving and (2) the process of finding something tolerable consist partly of perceiving the other person as psychologically weak, and social institutions of ...
Juha Räikkä, Marko Ahteensuu
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Genetic enhancement, futures tense

Futures, 2011
Abstract This article reviews central developments on the intersections of genetics research, genetic counselling and bioethics that, in the 1970s and 1980s came together in the construction of the genetic decision maker through an “enhancement imaginary”.
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Genetic Enhancement in Humans

Science, 1999
A great deal of public excitement and controversy has been associated with advances in gene technology, especially the idea that humans could be experimentally "enhanced." However, based on the recent history of transgenic experiments in animals, the prospects are much less rosy than portrayed, and even successful efforts could not affect human ...
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Toward Realism About Genetic Enhancement

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2019
In 2018, the first babies with edited DNA—Lulu and Nana—were born in China, under the auspices of now-notorious scientist He Jiankui.
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The myth of genetic enhancement

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2012
The ongoing revolution in molecular genetics has led many to speculate that one day we will be able to change the expression or phenotype of numerous complex traits to improve ourselves in many different ways. The prospect of genetic enhancements has generated heated controversy, with proponents advocating research and implementation, with caution ...
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Some Jewish Thoughts on Genetic Enhancement

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
The issues of the ethics of germ line modification in general and of enhancement by germ line modification in particular have been the subject of hundreds of articles in the bioethical literature. Both because the techniques are far from perfected and because the potential long term side effects are unkown, there is a widespread consensus that germ ...
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The Inevitability of Genetic Enhancement Technologies

Bioethics, 2004
ABSTRACTWe outline a number of ethical objections to genetic technologies aimed at enhancing human capacities and traits. We then argue that, despite the persuasiveness of some of these objections, they are insufficient to stop the development and use of genetic enhancement technologies.
Francoise, Baylis, Jason Scott, Robert
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Performance enhanced genetic programming

1997
Genetic Programming is increasing in popularity as the basis for a wide range of learning algorithms. However, the technique has to date only been successfully applied to modest tasks because of the performance overheads of evolving a large number of data structures, many of which do not correspond to a valid program.
Chris Clack, Tina Yu
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American Crystal Sugar: Genetically Enhanced Sugarbeets?*

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2005
Biotechnology affords new risks and opportunities for food processing firms. This decision case involves a cooperative that is considering whether to allow members to grow sugarbeet varieties that are genetically enhanced for herbicide tolerance. Sugarbeet farmer-members of American Crystal Sugar Company support the use of genetically enhanced (GE ...
Cheryl S. DeVuyst, Cheryl J. Wachenheim
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Genetic Enhancement

Medical ethics (Burlington, Mass.), 2005
G, McGee, E T, Juengst
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