Is The Genetically - Modified Athlete On The Way?

Is the genetically - modified athlete on the way?.

What is more, the importance of the genetic component in sporting ability has many implications for the future. As a society, we would uncover talent quickly and put young athletes with genetic potential on the right path to athletic achievement but individualy, finding out, at a young age, that child were never going to be good at a chosen sport would be very demoralizing.

However, even more disturbing is the posibility that some countries might consider using our rapidlygrowing knowledge of how genes work to engineer the make-up of a young athlete‘s genes in order to turn them into a ‘superman‘ or ‘superwoman‘. A major concern is that nobody knows what the long- term consequences of alteringgenes might be for human.