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 ...
Eugenics Wars anyone? Khan!!!!!!
st barnabas? i gather they were once. cino now.
This makes it sound like there were other babies born that were not healthy.
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...
This is a heinous and evil act. Absolutely, uncontrovertibly wrong, gravely sinful.
but no discussion of medicine would be complete without the opinions of Dr. Bogus.
” 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!
And his name shall be John Holmes the 2nd, and he’ll give new meaning to “five-dollar foot-long.”
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.
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