Posted on 06/28/2012 3:02:56 PM PDT by opentalk
The world's first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.
The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.
So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.
Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.
The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilised in an attempt to enable them to conceive.
Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year-old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults --two women and one man.
The fact that the children have inherited the extra genes and incorporated them into their 'germline' means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline -in effect tinkering with the very make-up of our species -is a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Grave new world.
One researcher says the kids have high iq’s
So Barry’s “marriage equality” for bisexuals becomes a reality - 3 parents! Oh wait, it is evidence of polygamy?
Okay, where did they put the OnStar button?
it's no picnic being a Catholic these days, thanks to "Catholics."
Dr. Ian Malcolm from "Jurassic Park".
The lack of ethics here leaves me at a loss for words.
well i’d call them frankenkids but it’s not their fault.
natural processes can and do insert stuff into the gonadal DNA, what they’re calling the germline. for example, viruses can do this. but it’s the first humanly purposed such insertion. pandora’s box has flipped wide open.
Philosophical / theological points to ponder:
If they can do this (and it seems that they did), if non-human genes are spliced to create viable embryos, would these human / non-human hybrids have souls?
We already know insulin is produced by bacteria which have human genes spliced into them...
That fact doesn't exactly comfort me...
Man, am I loving the future.
gays and lesbians will eat this up.
Reading this news, after everything else has happened today....I do believe I’ve lived too long...May God help us!!
Is there a people shortage I don’t know about? Those who make people should be made to sit in some of our lovely traffic jams.
Agree, this is creepy
“gays and lesbians will eat this up.”
You heard the one about the gay who was fired from the IVF clinic?
He was caught drinking on the job.
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