Michael Le Page

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580 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The World, the Universe and Us · If We Can Make Genetically Engineered Designer Babies - Should We? · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So embryo selection, the options, because the uh women generally have very few embryos available to choose from, the what you can do with that is very limited.

Of course, if you can edit them, the options are going to be much greater.

Well I step back and look at the bigger picture here.

So if you think about who we are, what you know, what we are, you know, we are these products of mindless evolution.

Our genomes are

are a complete mess.

I mean they you know m they consist mostly of the rotten remains of genetic parasites.

I mean it's just speak for yourself, Michael.

Michael.

So, you know, a a and it's also, you know, uh we tend to think, oh, it's normal to have healthy children, that's the the norm, but evolution doesn't work that way.

Evolution doesn't care if all children are not sort of healthy and happy.

So if you come at it from that perspective of, you know, we've got this sort of real mess of a genome, I I do think that it's inevitable that we are gonna start to use gene editing in the future and uh in fact it's gonna become routine in

uh and so on.

The question is, have we got to that point yet?

And I'd say not even close.

Not even close.

To start with, you know, even the case of like trying to improve the health of our children, we don't have a great understanding of genetic variance at all.

So you know so there's a chance that you you sort of tweak a gene 'cause you think it's gonna make your child healthier.

It might

have that desired effect but it might also have some adverse consequence that we haven't anticipated at all.

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