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World’s First GM Babies Born
Thursday, June 28, 2012 23:19
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The 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.'
I think that this has been going on for so long now, this is just the bottom rung that they are informing us of now. We will be shocked when we find out what they have actually been doing in these D.U.M.B.’s and research facilities.
Now, they are selling it to the public, under the guise of respectability and having a couple of mates to agree with them.
Of course, it is not their body, or life, or possible confusion to deal with, who knows what will become of the child’s psyche when they are old enough to understand? I mean, two mothers. That’s ground breaking.
If the genetic traits of these two women are incompatible, this little precious is going to have some deep value issues throughout their life.
And a word to Lord Winston, pull your head of off your ***. Stop lying, of course it goes on in Britian, whether it was allowed or not!!!!!!!!!
How gullible do you think people are these days?
God bless their little souls.
@It’sMyPerspective:
You’re right, genetic experimentation/tampering has been going on for quite a while now. And why exactly? Because they’re fucking insane.
Instead of focussing on creating abominations and deforming the natural eternal forces they should focus on creating clean energy for all, good food for all, making humanity strong so we can survive cosmic forces and alien threats.
Instead those pathetic fools chose to attack their own world and their own race. So I expect we will either simply go extinct or end up assimilated by a superior race of beings. akin to what happened to Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft. Turned into zerg.