The world's first genetically modified 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 program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized in an attempt to enable them to conceive. 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 geneticists believe will one day be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
World's first GM babies born | Mail Online
As It Was In The Days Of Watchers And Noah: Forbidden Gates Opened With First Publicly Acknowledged Genetically Modified Humans Born In US
The world's first genetically modified 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 program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized in an attempt to enable them to conceive. 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 geneticists believe will one day be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
The world's first genetically modified 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 program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized in an attempt to enable them to conceive. 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 geneticists believe will one day be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
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