Birth of first genetically modified humans revealed!
LONDON, England (PNN) - July 3, 2012 - 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 Fascist Police States of Amerika provoked another furious debate about ethics. Currently, two of the babies have been tested and 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.
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.
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”.
Jacques Cohen is regarded as a brilliant but controversial scientist who has pushed the boundaries of assisted reproduction technologies.
He developed a technique that 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.
