Designer Babies: Model Status Gene Pools | Andre Blair | TEDxSantaClaraUniversity

Andre Blair, a first-year student from Santa Clara University, poses the ethical repercussions of genetic modification in humans. Andre Blair is a first-year Santa Clara University student from a suburban town, McDonough, GA. He is studying business and plans on majoring in Finance and OMIS with a minor in music. Andre loves playing the piano and viola, singing in his A Capella group - Supertonic - and he loves playing pick up basketball on campus. He has always been dreaming of giving a TED talk because of the weekly tradition his family had of watching them every Sunday.
Today, movies and TV shows continually display science being used to modify humans and make them better and stronger like Captain America and The Incredible Hulk. This is clearly science fiction, but if it were possible to design humans how we see fit, should we do it? Well, scientists have recently gained the power to edit the DNA of humans, thus changing their characteristics, but the negative, ethical repercussions of its usage is greater than we may see at face value. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@Mosaic-xerox]

Genetic variation is very important, species that all share the same genetic information are likely to be all wiped in case of an epidemic

[@dpl280]

How does having cancer or Alzheimer on your DNA makes you inmune or helps in a pandemic?

[@elainagraceclayton5975]

KING

[@13Uploads]

This is scary 😨

[@IrradioMan]

i can't wait for designer babies to be a reality. i want to have kids who are immune to everything, look like tall, blond, muscular vikings and have a genius IQ.

[@Mackman922]

Never catch me listening to a man who stopped at 54 nuggets

[@sahinyasar9119]

maybe we should try gene edit on human where a small island nation to understand how to use crispr
You know if we wont try we never gonna understand and maybe we can create new species

[@omgfinally4340]

Good arguement

[@whitepeoplesay6075]

Popping the ps overall I give it a suuccks out of 10

[@dwightmerchant7664]

Great topic. Designing genes should be the focus of mankind. We can be more intelligent, less prone to disease and aging, and live for 1/2 million years and visit other stars. We are in the image of God and can obtain Godlike powers. Why not do it? Why do we have wisdom and knowledge, if not to use it for the improvement of mankind? Don't limit our full potential as a human race. We can design and upgrade humanity. We should add that procreation be controlled and designed also. Also, eliminate the monetary system. Use crispr.

[@DarkStar1233]

all that and you don't even know how to spell crispr
if we did use gene editing the human race would have near to no diseases to kill it and this would cause overpopulation and then we'll die anyways

[@dwightmerchant7664]

@@DarkStar1233 LOL, sorry about that. must have been that annoying auto spellcheck correction Gremlin (ASCG). Anyway, as I said, control procreation as part of the designing genes process. Not restricting 'idiots' from procreating, only planning and purposefully designing that event, for the benefit of mankind. I'm not talking mad scientist kind of things here, just a more organized structure to society. That's how great societies rise, with 'outside the box' thinking.

[@raspberrymist]

@@dwightmerchant7664 what exactly makes up a ‘great society’ in your opinion?

[@potemkin8606]

He didn't present any logical argument against gene editing.

[@___________________1]

'Legitimate research shows that genetics only play a partial role in how people turn out ,environment/Choices by the individual play just as Big of a role in how people turn out '

[@josephjoy7714]

Cope

[@___________________1]

@@josephjoy7714 Cope with what ? Thats just what legitimate research shows thats not how reality plays out and this is an amazing thing bc ppl like yourself exist ..

[@zackburnett2282]

Amazing, beautiful, creative, thoughtful, astonishing, wow, cool!

[@lkb4781]

zack burnett he has no understanding of the science. Everything he says is nonsense. Do your own research and form your own opinion

[@purplegirl8036]

I want him to be my teacher.

[@crankitup247365]

Terrible argument and overall bad speech giving skills

[@sean33313]

And this is thy you’re commenting and not in video. Have a good day sir

[@lkb4781]

Powermitts a simple comment from a simple person

[@UtilityHarvest]

Enlighten us dummy