Exposed!… World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Born!

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The world’s first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night. ~ Michael Hanlon

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 criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of
the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday:
‘Regarding the treat-ment 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 fertilisation 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 Fertilisation 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.

 

Michael Hanlon – June 27, 2012 – GovtSlaves

 

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