Scientists Call For International Permission to Study GM Human Embryos

September 11th, 2015

Awake Goy

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September 11, 2015

An international network of stem cell researchers, policy experts and bioethicists called the Hinxton Group met in the UK to call for a global accord on permitting the genetic modification of embryos for research on early human life and biology.

The group wrote in their statement : “International and regional debate will be required to assess and make decisions about the ethical acceptability/permissibility of different potential uses of human genome editing for clinical reproductive purposes, even once standards for safety, efficacy, and robust governance have been met.”

Robin Lovell-Badge, member of the Hinxton Group and head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute, commented: “Genome-editing techniques could be used to ask how cell types are specified in the early embryo and the nature and importance of the genes involved”. “Understanding gained could lead to improvements in IVF and reduced implantation failure, using treatments that do not involve genome editing.”

While the Hinxton Group supports research, they were against the birth of any genetically modified human babies … for now.

The consortium explained that GM babies should not be allowed to be born at the moment, it may be “morally acceptable” under some circumstances in the future.

Editing of genetic code in early embryotic stages could be of “tremendous value” and the “prospect that genome enhancing could someday be used to create genetically modified people mustn’t in itself be trigger for concern, significantly the place what’s at stake is curing or stopping critical illness.”

Now while this debate is just getting started, genetically modified human babies have already been birthed from a series of experiments.

At the Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Science of St. Barnabas in New Jersey, 15 children were created in the past 3 years.

After difficulty conceiving, the babies were genetically modified using extra genes from one female donor. Those genes were inserted into eggs that were then fertilized.

Defects in the structures of the egg cells of the infertile women called mitochondria led the researchers to take eggs from donors that transplanted “healthy” mitochondria. Mitochondria contain genes which is why the babies had traces of DNA from all 3 “parents”.

Jacques Cohen, lead researcher for the study said this “is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children.”

Cohen, who discovered the technique used to create these children, began with the purpose of allowing infertile men to have children of their own by injecting sperm DNA directly into a fertile egg in a petri-dish.