Elinar Arnason is a population geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Iceland. ... Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin writes in the New York Times, "The Icelandic parliament has enabled deCODE to convert the health and genetic status of the entire population into a tool, for the profit of a single enterprise." ... As medical ethicist Henry Greely, a Stanford law professor points out, "Genetics research grew up with family studies, in which the families involved have an obvious incentive to participate. ...

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Gelder of Stanford says, "look at what pills and powders they ingest before deciding that scientists play a too eminent role in today's world" (Gelder 1). ... Schmitt of University of Chicago speaks, is creating a new "human" or organism, and although benefits and drawbacks are both heavily weighted, it is not something in which genetic enhancement holds relevance. ...

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For nearly a century, cloning has been the subject of popular fiction even though the technology was lacking in reality. Recently, with the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, many suspect that clones of humans or human parts will soon be realized- if not already. Therefore, it has become incre...

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