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World's first GM babies born
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 28, 2012 | Michael Hanlon

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baby; bioethics; bravenewworld; eugenics; evil; genetics; moralabsolutes; religion; shouldoutlaw; soul
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To: opentalk

Eugenics Wars anyone? Khan!!!!!!


41 posted on 06/30/2012 5:41:39 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Justice Roberts knows the Constitution as much as the hominids know about the Monolith in "2001")
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To: surroundedbyblue

st barnabas? i gather they were once. cino now.


42 posted on 06/30/2012 6:41:21 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: opentalk
Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, the researchers, led by fertility pioneer Professor Jacques Cohen, say that this 'is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children'.

This makes it sound like there were other babies born that were not healthy.

43 posted on 06/30/2012 6:52:34 PM PDT by muggs (Hope and Change = Hoax and Chains)
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To: the invisib1e hand; surroundedbyblue
Not according to their website:

Located in Livingston, Saint Barnabas Medical Center is New Jersey's oldest and largest nonprofit, non-sectarian hospital. An award-winning Medical Center, Saint Barnabas is one of the busiest in the state with more than 84,000 Emergency Department visits and more than 35,000 inpatients. The Medical Center was ranked by US News and World Report as one of the Top 50...

44 posted on 06/30/2012 8:21:09 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: opentalk

This is a heinous and evil act. Absolutely, uncontrovertibly wrong, gravely sinful.


45 posted on 07/01/2012 4:14:15 AM PDT by sayuncledave (et Verbum caro factum est (And the Word was made flesh))
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
The proto-CINO.

but no discussion of medicine would be complete without the opinions of Dr. Bogus.

46 posted on 07/01/2012 7:34:51 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (A Dalmation was spotted trotting down the street...)
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To: the invisib1e hand

” no discussion of medicine would be complete without the opinions of Dr. Bogus.”

Wow! There are so many. many angles to peruse regarding this. I certainly question the ethics, from scientific, religious, and various other viewpoints, but,,,, But I cannot disregard how overjoyed these barren couples must be to be able to have children. I would think the chances are overwhelmingly on the side of them being very good parents for their “gift” of a child. Tough question! Besides, I’m a Meta-Proctologist, so what do I know!


47 posted on 07/01/2012 12:55:19 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Candor7

And his name shall be John Holmes the 2nd, and he’ll give new meaning to “five-dollar foot-long.”


48 posted on 07/02/2012 8:19:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
LOL.

I can see many Massachusetts liberal leftist baseball fans paying millions to have a few genes from David Ortiz inserted into their wives’ wombs?

Makes anyone want to puke.

49 posted on 07/03/2012 1:05:12 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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