Even after thousands of years of evolution, the human race is not perfect: it is ravaged by disease and limited by nature. Yet in recent times, researchers have begun to gain an advanced understanding of humanity's underlying genetic code. The now-completed Human Genome Project has provided a map of the intricacies of human DNA, allowing researchers to begin examining the role of each gene. Combined with selective embryo implantation, which today is used occasionally to avoid hereditary diseases or to choose sex, genetic discoveries can become a kind of artificial evolution. By modifying the genes of embryos before implantation, humanity has the potential to control many aspects of its offspring. The human race should welcome human genetic engineering because this technology will inevitably be used, is ethically sound, and offers opportunities for progress in disease prevention and improvement of the human body. Editing the human genome will occur as a natural result of genetic engineering. research, even if it does not directly concern the remaking of human DNA. In fields such as agriculture and livestock, genetics already plays an important role in success. In just a few decades, genetically modified crops have moved from laboratories to farmland, foreshadowing the success of similar projects in humans in the future. The techniques used by scientists to adjust the nature of plants are antecedents to slightly modified procedures that are used today to modify the DNA of animals. In Redesigning Humans, Gregory Stock describes a specific way in which genetics is already being used to determine traits, saying, “This is not an illusory genetic design. Capecchi's lab has already used the technique... in a mouse chromosome » ...... middle of article ......e?. " USA Today (Farmingdale). January 1999: 28-30. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. February 17, 2014. Green, Ronald M. "Human Genetic Engineering Should Be Allowed." Opposing Views: Genetic Engineering Ed. Noel Farmington Hills, 2013. 46-52 “National Human Genome Research Institute. Np, December 27, 2013. Web. February 15, 2014. Naik, Gautam. "New Advance Toward 'Designer Babies'." Wall Street Journal. October 4, 2013: p. A.3. Researcher on SIRS issues. Web. February 17, 2014. Stock, Gregory. Redesigning Humans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Print. Thadani, Rahul. “The public should oppose designer baby technology. » , 2013. Web.Wheeler, Sondra Ely. “Ethical Issues Related to Germline Social Engineering.” October 1999: 4-6, SIRS Issues Researcher, February 17.. 2014.