DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 21, 2015 morning
-- CRISPR and the designer babies
There was an article in the Economist about CRISPR.
It means Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats, a language that only biologists understand.
Anyway it is about designer babies, meaning parents
that engineer the genes to create a perfect baby.
This same article also accuses a few deaf parents
of wanting to engineer a deaf baby, which is not
in the best interests of these such babies!
-- a funny emergency call request in Russia
In Russia, an emergency call phone center
received this phone call that had a funny
request. A daughter wanted to find company
for her mother, saying:
my mother is hard of hearing, but hears
well with a hearing aid!
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