11 Oct 2013

Designer babies with Dr Colin Gavaghan

From Nine To Noon, 9:08 am on 11 October 2013
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Californian online genetics company 23andMe has patented a tool to select for specific genes. Dr Colin Gavaghan, director of the NZ Law Foundation Centre for Emerging Technologies, Faculty of Law at Otago University, disagrees patents are the way to go, but supports parents' rights to chose the sex of their child.

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