http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/17/genetics
This would, if I understand it properly, deactivate fertile eggs. I'm not married and have no kids but this kind of thing creeps me out. It's not exactly that some people don't want kid. I get that. some don't. It's that directly shutting down fertile eggs by means of genetic manipulation of humans worries me. It seems that even in the case of modifying poplar trees I can get what the goal is but I can't help being cautious about the possibility of unintended side effects. A regular medication or genetic alteration that is supposed to promote infertility might work TOO well. Franky Idiocracy doesn't seem all that far fetched sometimes, even though I know it's a satire based on completely improbable events.
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