Posted on 07/27/2017 4:25:30 AM PDT by brucedickinson
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, Technology Review has learned.
The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University, involved changing the DNA of a large number of one-cell embryos with the gene-editing technique CRISPR, according to people familiar with the scientific results.
Until now, American scientists have watched with a combination of awe, envy, and some alarm as scientists elsewhere were first to explore the controversial practice. To date, three previous reports of editing human embryos were all published by scientists in China.
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I love third party family making. My own child comes from an unwanted adopted embryo.
AND I TELL YOU CREATING GMO EMBRYOS IS A WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE for no good reason.
People do have sad stories of children born with devastating conditions that may have been genetic. So?? Life isn’t easy.
Most embryos, and the percentage could be 99%, created with drastic DNA issues, WONT MAKE IT to the second trimester. They just can’t. A few genetic issues allow birth, like some Down syndrome babies. They are the lucky, the few.
Also, most parents can continue making embryos on their own and try again, possibly have a healthier child.
On top of that, there is PGD and other genetic tests performed on either the egg or the full embryo, allowing the couple to know that the embryo they are going to carry will be pretty healthy.
That is enough. Each embryo doesn’t need to be “improved upon” by genetic modification. The parents have others. And if a couple has no healthy embryos, THEN THEY CAN USE OTHER, DONATED EMBRYOS out of the thousands in freezers all over the world, or Even adopt born children.
It is not worth genetically modifying “aneuploid” or broken embryos. Nature weeds out the really bad ones and we can test them before implantation too. There is no real upside to this disturbing science.
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