Has+Brave+New+World+Come+to+Pass?

Though it is true that //Brave New World// has not yet come to pass in terms of genetic engineering, society is on its way to reaching that point. So far, the only uses of genetic engineering on humans has had one of two purposes. The first was to cure a genetic disease called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), and though initially thought to be successful by curing the disease, four in ten of the patients had developed leukemia as a result of the insertion of the gene used as a cure within seven years and the testing was halted. The other use was to allow an infertile woman to have a child by using a healthy egg cell from another mother, causing the child to have the genetic information from the father and both mothers, and is being used on a small scale. Other forms of human genetic engineering, such as altering a person's appearance, are still theoretical, and drastic changes to DNA have only been tested on animals, but the potential is there. Society has not reached //Brave New World// yet, but it is getting closer.