In Regards to Human Genetics

In regards to human genetics, I think we can all agree that the history of them have been around for quite sometime. We can all recall that Gregor Mendel first began his research on Pea Plants, which ultimately led to the study of genetics. Now this was during 1866. That was a really really long time ago. From 1866 on, the study of human genetics has only grown immensely, in part due to technology and just the pure knowledge of genetics. Take in to consideration how long ago that was, and fast forward to now. Now, we can manipulate genes, change the genetic code, etc. I never even knew about "designer babies" until last semester. For those who do not know, designer babies are babies in which the parents are able to manipulate their child's genes, in order to do things such as change eye color, hair color, remove diseases, etc. I feel humans have truly become the God's now, just as our class discusses ultimately. We have so much versatility in everything we do now, not just human genetics, and this is basically all because of the technology. I absolutely cannot imagine what things we will be able to do 20 or 30 years from now.