Interesting, but not directly relevant article:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7227/full/457271a.html

"Let mind exist independently of conventional body"
Some of your other items are maybe approachable in a 100 years or so - maybe. But this one I think is much further out. It's not clear it's possible.

Not that there aren't serious issues with the other. It's not like gene X is good or gene X is bad in every case. It's a very complicated situation and it will probably often be the case that gene set X produces these characters that are desirable in situation Y, of no value in situation Z, and negative in situation W.