Too far? Scientists adjust DNA in unborn baby

[rangerrebew]

Too far? Scientists adjust DNA in unborn baby

August 2, 2017
 

Altering human heredity? In a first, researchers safely repaired a disease-causing gene in human embryos, targeting a heart defect best known for killing young athletes – a big step toward one day preventing a list of inherited diseases.

In a surprising discovery, a research team led by Oregon Health and & Science University reported Wednesday that embryos can help fix themselves if scientists jump-start the process early enough.

It’s laboratory research only, nowhere near ready to be tried in a pregnancy. But it suggests that scientists might alter DNA in a way that protects not just one baby from a disease that runs in the family, but his or her offspring as well. And that raises ethical questions.

https://thehornnews.com/far-scientists-adjust-dna-unborn-baby/

[Free Vulcan]

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[EC]

See no ethical problem at all with repairing genes in a foetus. The genes are already there - either from the mother or father - so making them work by sticking in a good copy from one of the parents (or forcing the good copy of the pair to be expressed) is preventative medicine as far as I'm concerned.

Where ethics rears it's head is if you are swapping out genes - putting into the child genes that neither parent has. That is no longer medicine.

[kevindavis007]

It could be useful for colonizing other planets that is close but no cigar..  Just modify the human DNA so the human race can continue..

[Wingnut]

It could be useful for colonizing other planets that is close but no cigar..  Just modify the human DNA so the human race can continue..

Why?  Everything dies.  The human race is just another pimple of the ass of the cosmos.

[kevindavis007]

Why?  Everything dies.  The human race is just another pimple of the ass of the cosmos.

I don't think so..

[kevindavis007]

Useful for Space Colonization...



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[Cripplecreek]

Useful for Space Colonization...

Yup. Nothing wrong with altering human DNA to be better able to cope with denser atmosphere, higher radiation exposure, or lower gravity etc.

[bigheadfred]

See no ethical problem at all with repairing genes in a foetus. The genes are already there - either from the mother or father - so making them work by sticking in a good copy from one of the parents (or forcing the good copy of the pair to be expressed) is preventative medicine as far as I'm concerned.

Where ethics rears it's head is if you are swapping out genes - putting into the child genes that neither parent has. That is no longer medicine.

I agree.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Wonder how this works? They alter one cell or what?

[kevindavis007]

Yup. Nothing wrong with altering human DNA to be better able to cope with denser atmosphere, higher radiation exposure, or lower gravity etc.

Or a planet that is completely water.