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Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 7:32 am
No ones sure if it's actually been done yet or not, but that's the claim. A chinese scientist states that he has modified embryo with CRISPR to make them impervious to HIV infection. The reason, the sperm donor (father) was HIV positive.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...dit-babies
Apparently the scientific community is in a bit of a uproar. It seems like the position is "too much, too soon" and in this case "unnecessary".
I don't really see that much wrong with it. We new it would be eventually used.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 7:39 am
This is terrible news. If gene splicing can make people immune to disease, how the hell is God supposed send plagues to punish the ungodly??
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 9:30 am
So maybe, just maybe - stupid CAN be fixed.....
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 9:32 am
(November 29, 2018 at 9:30 am)onlinebiker Wrote: So maybe, just maybe - stupid CAN be fixed.....
Get on that list as fast as you can, mate.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 10:20 am
(November 29, 2018 at 9:30 am)onlinebiker Wrote: So maybe, just maybe - stupid CAN be fixed.....
Only in specific cases.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2018 at 10:33 am by Anomalocaris.)
The issue here seems to be the scientists in question did this more or less on their own, bypassing the normal procedures for approval and ethical review processes in the institutions for which they nominally work.
For example, One of the scientist apparently did this while on leave from the university in which he holds a professionship. He claim to work with a hospital but the hospital denied collaborating with him or agreeing to let him work with any of their patient. His ethics filing is apparently under invsigation and said to be illegitimate. He apparently negotiated the consent from the children’s parents on his own. In China it is apparently illegal to do this without a neutral qualified intermediary.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 10:56 am
China, illegal???,............. yeah, OK.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 11:08 am
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(November 29, 2018 at 10:56 am)wyzas Wrote: China, illegal???,............. yeah, OK.
Yeah. There, The likes of Trump would have been arrested, tried and found guilty, shot, the crime he was found to be guilty of then inserted into the law code and the new law code published, in that sequence, in under 60 minutes.
The notion that anything goes there is a caricature.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 12:42 pm
(November 29, 2018 at 9:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 29, 2018 at 9:30 am)onlinebiker Wrote: So maybe, just maybe - stupid CAN be fixed.....
Get on that list as fast as you can, mate.
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RE: Human baby gene editing is here?
November 29, 2018 at 12:50 pm
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(November 29, 2018 at 12:42 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
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So maybe, just maybe - stupid CAN be fixed.....
Can be prevented by gene manipulation, Can not be fixed by gene manipulation. Sorry. Too late for you.
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