Gattaca

Searching for stem cell news on the internet reveals a never-ending amount of pages with web sites about breakthroughs in stem-cell research. Such articles included potential cures to diabetes, Parkinson's, leukemia, and various forms of cancer. This research could potentially lead to these terrible diseases' near end. In Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, a society is portrayed where there are no diseases due to advanced genetic engineering. This movie, based in the future, depicts couples that are able to basically hand-pick a perfect child. While modern technology has not evolved near as far as in Gattaca, stem-cell research is on the verge of creating a way to counter vicious diseases.

One development that seemed to relate to the movie is stem-cells being to treat new born babies who have Batten disease; a disease that creates for a lack of enzymes which "damages different parts of the brain and leads to seizures, blindness, loss of the ability to walk and speak and eventually death." While it is not a common disease, 1 in 100,000, this clinic's technological advancement could lead to preventing other fatal illnesses. Robert Steiner, head of
Rather than discriminating on basis of color, race, and religion, the impartiality has evolved in to discrimination of one's genetic coding. In theory, genetic discrimination could be advantageous to allow the "perfect" human beings to control the job marketplace for the highly-skilled careers. They are able to live a long, healthy, clean life with no concerns of imperfections in their body and are mentally equipped to succeed in what ever complex operations they pursue. On the other hand, humans' strengths are not based solely on their genetic compound; their strengths are entwined with their imperfections. This is comparable to the common belief that one learns from their mistakes and