Sam, We need to keep babies with genetic defects alive, otherwise where would our next generation of politicians come from? But on reflection, maybe I need to think this through a bit more! John. Sent from my iPad > On 9/12/2015, at 1:29 am, Sam Sloan via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > "Van Rooyen predicts that in a few years, every infant born in the > developed world will have his or her genome sequenced in the hospital." > > This represents a great breakthrough, but am sure all of can see the > potential problem. > The problem is if we are keeping babies with genetic defects alive, those > genetic defects will be passed down to the next generation. > Recognizing this, somebody will have to decide which babies to keep alive, > and which babies to let die of natural causes. > I am sure everybody can see where that will lead. > > Sam Sloan > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Max Heffler via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> Decoding a Baby's Genome in 26 Hours - IEEE Spectrum >> >> >> http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/decoding-a-babys-genome-in-2 >> 6-hours >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message