Posted on 09/28/2016 7:26:00 AM PDT by plain talk
It’s a boy! A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people, New Scientist can reveal. “This is great news and a huge deal,” says Dusko Ilic at King’s College London, who wasn’t involved in the work. “It’s revolutionary.”
The controversial technique, which allows parents with rare genetic mutations to have healthy babies, has only been legally approved in the UK. But the birth of the child, whose Jordanian parents were treated by a US-based team in Mexico, should fast-forward progress around the world, say embryologists.
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Did you ever see the faces of the children
They get so excited
Waking up on Christmas morning
Hours before the winter sun’s ignited
They believe in dreams and all they mean
Including heaven’s generosity
Peeping round the door
To see what parcels are for free
In curiosity
And Tommy doesn’t know what day it is
He doesn’t know who Jesus was
Or what praying is
How can he be saved
From the eternal grave?
As far as I know, there are no artificial insemination methods that do not result in the destruction of many embryos. Or, at least, there are unwanted embryos that are either discarded or used for medical experimentation.
Modern fertility services are part of the pro-death culture that is considered socially acceptable among many on the right.
And that’s unfortunate.
Science and the scientific method do not and can not provide guidance for solving the failure of human morality. It must be the other way around. Science must be guided by morality, or it has great destructive potential.
“...UK. But the......... whose Jordanian parents were treated by a US-based team in Mexico, ...”
My head is spinning....wha, who, where are we..??
Progress?
Fast-forward progress? We haven’t even seen the physiological effects this could have on this child.
Not to mention the wrath of God we are about to endure...
Scientific Chimaeras are ethically very risky, but I don’t necessarily have a problem with this particular kind of work. If the parents know that they’ve got a serious genetic problem that would be all but certain to express in their kid, then finding a way to edit it out seems to me to have plenty of benefits, both personal for the parents and utilitarian for the society at large.
On a broader note, this work lays the foundation for work that one day really might help save the human species; due to the way our genetics work, there isn’t a way for the Y chromosome to repair itself. Over time, the Y has dwindled to the point that it’s close to falling apart. This comes at a time when many of our cultures have apparently shifted into self-destruction through one mechanism or another (Japan, greater Europe, the US have dropped to or below replacement level, while much of the Islamic world is inbreeding itself into dysfunction). The upcoming population implosion would only amplify the consequences of a Y failure. Gene therapy like the above could help to restore the Y to where it at least is no longer threatened (though granted, all it does is kick the can down the road).
It’s certainly possible that, if we did nothing, the flexibility of our genes would allow us to adapt to the Y becoming useless, but the upheaval would almost certainly have long-term consequences for us.
Did you ever hear the London Symphony Orchestra (with guest singers) version of this album? It’s strange, especially the rock singers trying to sound “symphonic”, but kind of interesting. I have in in quadrophonic and wish I hadn’t sold my turntable...
cheers
Jim
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
You wonder how Soros and Cankles stay alive and evil so much?
Brand spanking new aborted baby organs, blood and now gene splicing to fool Mother Nature.
It takes a village. lol
It would not surprise me if the elite evils of this world were benefitting from some abomination of technology the likes of which “mainstream” medicine is ignorant of.
They did a re-release of that (CD) album four or five years ago.
It’s complete with the booklet - pics/words.
I bought one before they sold out which was within days, IIRC.
I loaned my CD copy decades ago to someone who died before I could get it back. Bought the vinyl edition when it first came out.
IUI does not destroy embryos. http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/intrauterine-insemination/home/ovc-20205399
Another mean to jump generations and disrespecting grandparent, parent link in diviing up cells. This is pure sexual orientation vs. family tie
But Tommy doesn’t know what day it is.
Technology is the biggest disrupter of traditional morality.
The pill upset our sexually morality, hormonal therapy and surgical techniques are upsetting our very gender identity and the existing rules, genetic engineering will provide unimaginable disruptions into our “accepted” rules of behavior.
This will cause a lot of social strife, as traditional morality is upended and the long term consequences of the new “morality” is not yet known.
“As far as I know, there are no artificial insemination methods that do not result in the destruction of many embryos.”
Not true, good old fashioned intrauterine artificial insemination doesn’t involve killing embryos. It basically just gives the sperm a leg up in their normal attempts at fertilization.
The problem is that only helps if the problem lies with the man. Nowadays, with many women eschewing having kids during their prime years of fertility, the problem is often with the woman, and that is why in vitro fertilization has become so widespread.
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