Genetically-engineered teenage angst
by Michael Cook | 3 Sep 2016 |
The latest film about bioethics is basically an updated version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But if it worked in 1818, why not in 2016? Morgan is a genetically-engineered, parentless teenager who is physically and intellectually precocious but an emotional wreck. Her scientist creators appear to have forgotten to tweak those genes. And when she gets upset, all hell breaks loose.
Rotten Tomatoes gives Morgan a score of 43%, but the top critics are divided. “This is one of the worst movies of 2016,” says Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times. But Ellen Brait, of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, writes, “Even I, a self-prescribed horror movie skeptic, found myself wrapped up in Morgan - I was invested in the characters, I (mostly) bought into the plot and even found myself embracing some of the gore by the end.”
- See more at: http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/genetically-engineered-teenage-angst/11981#sthash.b84tYjqa.dpufRotten Tomatoes gives Morgan a score of 43%, but the top critics are divided. “This is one of the worst movies of 2016,” says Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times. But Ellen Brait, of Toronto’s Globe and Mail, writes, “Even I, a self-prescribed horror movie skeptic, found myself wrapped up in Morgan - I was invested in the characters, I (mostly) bought into the plot and even found myself embracing some of the gore by the end.”
From an ethical point of view, IVF is made of teflon. Just about nothing sticks. It's understandable, since its product line is the joyful experience of cradling a newborn baby. However, there have always been some dark clouds hanging over IVF. What works always seems to have trumped what's safe. But clinicians are beginning to realise that some IVF techniques could be responsible for serious health problems for IVF children decades later.
As we report below, the editor of the leading journal Human Reproduction warns that changes are needed. “It’s not possible to sell a single drug on the market if you do not give the total composition of the drug, but for such an important thing as culture media, that envelopes the whole embryo, you can sell it without revealing its contents. For me, that’s unacceptable,” he says. “Compared to the rest of medicine, this is such a backward area. We can’t accept it any longer.”
Michael Cook
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