DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th Chromosome!

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We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?… In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are
bioengineered to be ‘perfect specimens’, and one’s entire life and
position in the world is based on their genetics. ~ Aaron Dykes – Melissa Melton – Video

Those conceived
naturally without genetic screening are proclaimed “invalid” and only
allowed menial jobs, despite the innate talents and skills they may
possess.

Alternately, the 2011 movie In Time
portrays a dystopic future where humans are genetically programmed to
stop aging at 25 and could live forever — so long as they earn enough
“time credits” to afford to stay alive; the poor perish swiftly under an
artificially skyrocketing cost of living that times out their clocks,
while the rich who steer the technocracy are gaming the system and
living indefinitely.

Such nightmare scenarios place obvious restrictions on the natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Back in reality, alarmingly similar ends are being pursued.

DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, has just put out a new solicitation for a project called, “Advanced Tools for Mammalian Genome Engineering” on the government’s Federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) site.

This project isn’t just for engineering any mammal’s genome, however; it’s specifically for the bioengineering of humans.

The proposal explains the project’s details:

The ability to deliver exogenous DNA to
mammalian cell lines is a fundamental tool in the development of
advanced therapeutics, vaccines, and cellular diagnostics, as well as
for basic biological and biomedical research…

The successful development
of technologies for rapid introduction of large DNA vectors into human
cell lines will enable the ability to engineer much more complex
functionalities into human cell lines than are currently possible.

The project’s stated objective is to “improve the utility of Human
Artificial Chromosomes (HACs).” (Gallows humor jokes about how DARPA
wants to literally HAC(k) you can be made at any time.) A Wikipedia entry explains in relatively plain language what a HAC is and what it does:

A human artificial chromosome (HAC) is a
microchromosome that can act as a new chromosome in a population of
human cells.

That is, instead of 46 chromosomes, the cell could have 47
with the 47th being very small, roughly 6-10 megabases in size, and able
to carry new genes introduced by human researchers.

So
DARPA and its team of associated scientists want to introduce an
entirely new 47th chromosome into human genetics as a vector platform
for inserting bio-alterations and wholesale genetic “improvements” into
our DNA.

The agency hopes that development of a new chromosome will allow a
solution to the limitations of current “state-of-the-art” gene transfer
technologies (including plasmids, adenovirus-, lentivirus-, and
retrovirus-vectors, cDNA, and minigene constructs).

The proposal
explains that existing approaches must be improved due to known
drawbacks in the scientists’ failure to control their results, causing a
few minor major problems:

These
include random DNA insertion into the host genome, variation in stable
integration sites between cell lines, variation in the copy number and
expression level of DNA that is delivered, limitations on the number and
size of DNA constructs that can be delivered, and immunological
responses to foreign DNA.

Yet these techniques are already in use? How reassuring.

Ever hear the term ‘playing God’? Scientists who work in these fields
not only refer to themselves as “genome engineers,” but “biological
designers” in their journal articles. This January 2013 piece in the journal Molecular Systems Biology introduces the topic with a chilling description:

The phrase ‘genome-scale engineering’ invokes a
future in which organisms are custom designed to serve humanity. Yet
humans have sculpted the genomes of domesticated plants and animals for
generations.

Darwin’s contemporary William Youatt described selective
breeding as ‘that which enables the agriculturalist, not only to modify
the character of his flock, but to change it altogether.

It is the
magician’s wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form
and mold he pleases’ (Youatt, 1837).

It’s
impossible to even compile an accurate listing of all the potential
slippery slopes at play here, yet it is clear that this entails a
momentous grasp at controlling life, which not only empowers an already
dictatorial technocratic elite, but emboldens a delusional and
destructive cadre intent on overwriting the existing species now on
Earth.

Watch the 30-second promo video below where an investment firm (with
their creepy all seeing eye logo) nonchalantly projects that within 50
years, science will displace natural life by a factor of 50-to-1 with
artificial lab-created species – including plants, animals, humans,
bacteria and viruses.

Fidelity Investments Forecasts the Creation of 50x More Synthetic Biological Species than Known Natural Species

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Through DARPA, our government funds a laundry list of projects to gain technocratic control of the future that reads more like a summary of the latest sci-fi horror film plots. Case in point: just today Activist Post reported “Secret DARPA Mind Control Project Revealed: Leaked Document“.

When looking at one DARPA project to perfect mind control techniques — or a second DARPA project to study the human hormone oxytocin to ‘improve’ our response to government propaganda — or a third DARPA brain interface
project that would literally turn soldiers into cyborgs, it’s creepy
enough. However, when looking at all of these projects together as a
combined effort … it raises chilling questions as to what kind of
dystopic, technocratic future they are forcing us into.

These developments only include a small sampling of what we know is
admittedly going on. Who knows what is actually taking place behind the
scenes.

Exactly how many far-reaching and potentially disastrous implications of our government literally playing God are there?

 

Aaron Dykes – Melissa Melton – July 29, 2013 – posted at ActivistPost

 

Aaron and Melissa created TruthstreamMedia.com, where this article first appeared,
as an outlet to examine the news, place it in a broader context,
uncover the deceptions, pierce through the fabric of illusions, grasp
the underlying factors, know the real enemy, unshackle from the system,
and begin to imagine the path towards taking back our lives, one step at
a time, so that one day we might truly be free…

 

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