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Real Genetically Modified Babies Born!! Is Cloning Next?
Genetically modified babies have been born!
How does it work? For starters, mothers who have had trouble conceiving come forward and are given the opportunity have children. Doctors then seek volunteer donors who are willing to have their eggs poked with a thin needle allowing them to remove mitochondria that contains genes. They then take the ‘extra’ gene from the female donor and insert it into the egg of the expecting mother before she is fertilized—upping her chances of conception.
So far, thirty healthy babies have been born; fifteen of which have been birthed at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St. Barnabas in New Jersey in the past three years.
Consequently two of the babies genetic fingerprint tests have revealed that they inherited DNA from not two, but all three parents–two women and one man.
Considering these children have an ‘extra’ gene in their ‘germline’ means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline is tinkering with the very make-up of our species and God only knows what that means for the future.
Geneticists fear that one day this technique could be used to construct new race 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, state that this ‘is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children’.
There are a few experts who have disapproved of this technique, one of them is Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, he told BBC:
‘Regarding the treatment 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.’
National director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, John Smeaton, also replied:
‘One has tremendous sympathy for couples who suffer infertility problems. But this seems to be a further illustration of the fact that the whole process of in vitro fertilization as a means of conceiving babies leads to babies being regarded as objects on a production line.
‘It is a further and very worrying step down the wrong road for humanity.’ Professor Cohen and his colleagues diagnosed that the women were infertile because they had defects in tiny structures in their egg cells, called mitochondria.
Last year, Professor Cohen claimed that one day he would be able to clone children– which is a horror to the scientific community.
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