Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 25(1): 143-154, 2015 (June)

Review Paper

Title: Welcome to the Brave New World: CRISPR Mediated Genome Editing- pathway to Designer Babies?

Diana Elizondo1?;, Lourds Michelle Fernando1?;, Everett Oliver ^21; , Keely Clinton^1;, Nicole Retland1;, Henri Paturault^1; and Hemayet Ullah*

Department of Biology, Howard University, 415 College St., NW, Washington,

Key words: ^{; Equal contribution?; 2}Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard University, 420 W. St., NW, Washington, DC 200592; Corresponding author*

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Prologue Quote from A Scientist about 25 years from now: Instead of creation of offspring by chance we can create offspring by choice. Introduction: The world literature circle was abuzz in 1932 when Aldous Huxley published his seminal book ?Brave New World?. He painted the efforts of a totalitarian state to lab manufacture ?sub-human? people who would be capable of work but not of independent thought. Though the plot was set almost 500 years in the future, the author may not have envisioned th

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