Worlds First Genetically Modified Babies Born
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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-43767/Worlds-GM-babies-born.htmlThe world’s first geneticallymodified 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.
Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
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’.
Some experts severely criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: ’Regarding the treat-ment of the infertile, there is no evidence that this technique is worth doing . . . I am very surprised that it was even carried out at this stage. It would certainly not be allowed in Britain.’
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Wack, until they create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
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Demons stay winnin..
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Gold_Certificate wrote: »Wack, until they create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
This or creating Human Tiger Hyrbids
Humans with the relative strengths of an ant.
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it'll be over then, this type of ? always falls in the wrong hands. ? the only modification this ? wants is no cooldown period after bussing two nuts. Unlimited ? for the win
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It begins...
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I don't like this ? .
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Astronaut_King wrote: »So this is the evolution athiests believe in....hahahahahahahaha.
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I think this is gonna turn out bad
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? around and create a Goro baby
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trouble
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freehuey89 wrote: »? around and create a Goro baby
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WTF! Some of y'all scary.
Nobody complains about a magic man splicing a piece of Adams rib to make Eve.
Same ? . If we are created in Gods image we do ? ? does. -
I'm just mad that I gain absolutely nothin from this...? the future...WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY, LAB COAT????!!!!
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now we wait for the issues these kids have when they get older..........
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Oh Jesus.? evolution now they jumping steps.But they can´t find the cure for aids.
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right, that adam rib/eve thing is just a metaphor for something else
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Cabana_Da_Don
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Oh Jesus.? evolution now they jumping steps.But they can´t find the cure for aids.
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freehuey89 wrote: »right, that adam rib/eve thing is just a metaphor for something else
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So aliens finally taught us how to make new creatures.You know something we are going to ? ourselves.
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Man is an unnatural creature, its only fitting
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Plus can we forget that The Black Man extracted The White Man from himself.
Wait. That didn't turn out to good.
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This ? is crazy. What's especially ? up is when we poor middle class people have kids they gonna be regular average kids whole the rich people gonna use this ? to make they kids much smarter and stronger then ours and we gonna be at a disadvantage.
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The end is near...I can see it off in the distance.