The Gestation Equation: Testing Babies' Genes

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Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Journalist Bonnie Rochman talks about her new Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.5	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there?
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love.
0:28.0	T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:30.9	Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on June 1st, 2017.
0:36.5	I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, one potential outcome of all this
0:41.8	genetic technology and genetic testing is abortion. Not that it is the right decision or the
0:48.8	wrong decision, but it is one reason why people do testing.
0:56.6	That's award-winning journalist Bonnie Rockman.
1:02.3	She was a staff writer for Time magazine and a parenting and health columnist for Time.com.
1:07.5	And she's contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, MIT Tech Review, as well as Scientific American.
1:10.1	And her new book from Scientific American and Faris Strauss and Giroux
1:13.7	is The Gene Machine, How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids and the Kids We Have.
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