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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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1 posted on 06/28/2012 3:03:01 PM PDT by opentalk
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Grave new world.


2 posted on 06/28/2012 3:04:36 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: opentalk

One researcher says the kids have high iq’s


3 posted on 06/28/2012 3:06:14 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: opentalk

So Barry’s “marriage equality” for bisexuals becomes a reality - 3 parents! Oh wait, it is evidence of polygamy?


4 posted on 06/28/2012 3:08:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: opentalk

Okay, where did they put the OnStar button?


5 posted on 06/28/2012 3:08:54 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: opentalk
Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.

it's no picnic being a Catholic these days, thanks to "Catholics."

6 posted on 06/28/2012 3:11:50 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (they have no god but caesar)
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To: opentalk
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

Dr. Ian Malcolm from "Jurassic Park".

The lack of ethics here leaves me at a loss for words.

7 posted on 06/28/2012 3:13:09 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Southack
One researcher says the kids have high iq’s


8 posted on 06/28/2012 3:13:56 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: opentalk

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.


9 posted on 06/28/2012 3:17:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: opentalk

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...


10 posted on 06/28/2012 3:20:00 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Southack; opentalk
One researcher says the kids have high iq’s

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That fact doesn't exactly comfort me...

11 posted on 06/28/2012 3:21:51 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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Slippery Slope, nothing good can become of this, article said it is illegal in Britain.
12 posted on 06/28/2012 3:28:32 PM PDT by opentalk
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Man, am I loving the future.


13 posted on 06/28/2012 3:43:24 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the StatistI)
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To: opentalk

gays and lesbians will eat this up.


14 posted on 06/28/2012 3:45:30 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: opentalk

Reading this news, after everything else has happened today....I do believe I’ve lived too long...May God help us!!


15 posted on 06/28/2012 3:49:30 PM PDT by MasonGal
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To: opentalk

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.


16 posted on 06/28/2012 3:52:10 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: MasonGal

Agree, this is creepy


17 posted on 06/28/2012 3:55:14 PM PDT by opentalk
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Village of the Damned was on this morning.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/


18 posted on 06/28/2012 4:04:03 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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“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.


19 posted on 06/28/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: opentalk
They are still slaves under Obamacare.
20 posted on 06/28/2012 4:21:40 PM PDT by Musketeer
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