Just saw that too. My mates were discussing this. Most think the Chinese govt has been looking at this sort of stuff for a long time anyway.
The scientist in the article says - "Society will decide what to do next". And that's really troubling. The science is nearly always ahead of the ethics. We were talking about this the other day. My kids would happily have been modified so as not to suffer eczema, anxiety and whatever else we suffer from - hayfever for me. That seems to be "benign", but what do we know about this and where does it stop? A guy at work has just announced his wife is pregnant with their second child and they will have 2 daughters. He said if they have another one he is definitely going to America to have a boy. Again, largely benign, but it removes a lot of the element of the fittest sperm reaching the egg.
It's quite a troubling area. There are probably dozens of ethical papers on this - would be interesting if the press reported some of them alongside the stories of the science.
