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Engineers and writers have predicted many developments in science and technology. In addition to other sophisticated machines, Leonardo da Vinci described the principle of the helicopter. In the early 1820s, Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculator long ahead of its time. Over 160 years later, the mechanical precursor of a programmable computer was in fact built, and it worked! Jules Verne described submarines and a journey to the moon, and Hans Dominik described obtaining energy by splitting the atom. All of these visions have become reality. Only a single application was preconceived for gene technology, the most seminal invention of our time: the cloning of two genetically identical individuals in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It remains a hope that researchers will respect ethical boundaries, and despite the feasibility, never actually use Huxley’s idea.
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Klebe, G. (2013). Gene Technology in Drug Research. In: Klebe, G. (eds) Drug Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17907-5_12
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