Worlds first Genetically Modified HUMANS...

Opinions? Do you feel this is ethical or no?
Do you think this should be banned or allowed?

http://canadianawareness.org/2012/06/worlds-first-gm-babies-born/



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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 criticized the experiments. Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: ‘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.’
John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: ‘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.
They took eggs from donors and, using a fine needle, sucked some of the internal material – containing ‘healthy’ mitochondria – and injected it into eggs from the women wanting to conceive.
Because mitochondria contain genes, the babies resulting from the treatment have inherited DNA from both women. These genes can now be passed down the germline along the maternal line.
A spokesman for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates ‘assisted reproduction’ technology in Britain, said that it would not license the technique here because it involved altering the germline.
Jacques Cohen is regarded as a brilliant but controversial scientist who has pushed the boundaries of assisted reproduction technologies.
He developed a technique which allows infertile men to have their own children, by injecting sperm DNA straight into the egg in the lab.
Prior to this, only infertile women were able to conceive using IVF. Last year, Professor Cohen said that his expertise would allow him to clone children –a prospect treated with horror by the mainstream scientific community.
‘It would be an afternoon’s work for one of my students,’ he said, adding that he had been approached by ‘at least three’ individuals wishing to create a cloned child, but had turned down their requests."

think its great lol many will disagree but oh well. I find it fascinating.
I think it can help eradicate certain diseases in the future maybe even have the potential to cure cancer and fertility issues. Do i believe its ethical....well its already been done so what will we do cast these children away because they aren't ethical lol. Someone has to take a step into the deep end to progress...These mothers made the choice to do this with their body and their children. Im sure there will be some restriction put on this in the near future...many people do not agree with it.

This is how Sci-Fi horror movies start out.....

I'm not happy about it at all.

Honestly, it just doesn't sit well with me. I feel like it's opening the potential for more genetic disorders. I think science is amazing, and it's come so far, but this is too much like playing God.

I have mixed feelings about it. It's amazing what science has been able to accomplish, but I don't think it's something i'd do myself. Genetically "perfecting" your baby....it's a huge concept for me to wrap my mind around it.

Quoting empire state of mind:" This is how Sci-Fi horror movies start out....."

   
Zombie apocalypse here we come!

It's not ok...

Ahhhhh, leave it to Jersey to do this.

The whole concept is alittle off to me.....the point is so that the mother gets to carry her & her SO's own baby but she is actually carring her own,SO's & another women's child .....which kinda defeats the purpose of not just getting an egg donor. Mixing the genes like that could cause adverse affect down the line.

I personally do not have a huge issue with it - I'm fascinated by what people are able to do and having grown up with a family member that is severely handicapped with a very rare medical complication, it's good to know science is moving in a direction that will possibly allow people like my father to live a better, more healthy life.

Creating designer babies? I don't agree with that, using it for use in the medical field to possibly do things like cure cancer and other diseases is wonderful.

Both terrifying and fascinating.

Quoting LolaMcKitten:" I personally do not have a huge issue with it - I'm fascinated by what people are able to do and having ... [snip!] ... agree with that, using it for use in the medical field to possibly do things like cure cancer and other diseases is wonderful. "

That's why science like this needs to be very carefully monitored. It starts out with the noble goal of curing the sick and then it becomes yet another medical cash crop.

Quoting Melissa ღ:"     Zombie apocalypse here we come!"

More like Gattaca, here we come.

This!!!
This woman said it perfectly and I agree 100%.

(copied from the web page)


This is the most disturbing and disgusting thing I’ve ever heard! Shame on those who made this study and shame on those who took part in it!! This is pure selfishness at its very core! While pregnancy and child rearing is something beautiful, its a fact of life some women are just not able to conceive. And to balance that out, there are just as many moms and dads who don’t give a smurf about their kids or can’t care for them and they are in foster care, or sitting in an adoption centre waiting for that perfect family. I was one of the lucky ones who got adopted early, but some aren’t that fortunate. Some children grow up to be 18 and released without knowing what a real family is. Stop giving people excuses to overpopulate the world, and give the children already born and waiting for a home, a family to call their own. Kudos to the British for having a head on their shoulders and realizing how wrong this is!