First Genetically Modified Human Embryo Under Review 509
Wired is reporting that Cornell University researchers genetically modified a human embryo in 2007, but have only recently been gaining publicity as their work is being reviewed. "The research raises a number of thorny ethical questions. Though adding a fluorescent protein was merely a proof-of-principle step, scientists say that modified embryos could be used to research human diseases. They say embryos wouldn't be allowed to develop for more than a few weeks, much less implanted in a woman and brought to term."
Re:WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? (Score:5, Funny)
fluorescent protein? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wouldn't be allowed to develop? (Score:5, Funny)
As much as you murder millions of children every night with bottle of lotion and a box of kleenex...
Cool! I have a list of human mods already! (Score:5, Funny)
Number 1: More intelligence. Hoo boy do we need this one implemented ASAP.
Number 2: Respiratory bypass system. No more choking to death on pretzels.
Number 3: Two hearts. Works for the Time Lords, howzabout it working for us?
Number 4: Reinforced cerebral circulatory system. No more strokes.
Number 5: Smarter immune system. Get rid of cancer and AIDS before they start, no more auto-immune diseases.
Number 6: Smart metabolism. Good-bye unwanted pounds, save your ass if you crash in the Andes without making your co-survivors menu items.
And so on. Look, we can stand some species improving. Save the default in the genes as a backup and let's get splicing here.
Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool! I have a list of human mods already! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If they are not self aware, why not? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cool! I have a list of human mods already! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cool! I have a list of human mods already! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fluorescent protein? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A sad time for humanity (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What is "human" to you? (Score:2, Funny)
You can see the head (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why not allow them to be implanted? (Score:5, Funny)
scientific experiment > mommy was drunk
for a lot of people. YMMV.
Re:What is "human" to you? (Score:4, Funny)
Forget whether it's "murder" or not for a second (that's an emotive word that will only derail discussion) and focus on the "human" aspect of things, please.
Fertilized embryos and zygotes are living homo sapien organisms--not some other species, right? They're becoming something we all recognize as human, or would given food and shelter?
So what's the other side of that (and ONLY that--no "murder" discussion, please)? They can't feel or understand pain so it's speciesist to give them special treatment merely because they're homo sapiens. Or perhaps, "What's the difference between them and cell cultures removed from your body? Especially if we could clone those?", ignoring that fertilized embryos are becoming human and samples are not?
I merely want to understand, so no flames please. I would like to hear your reasoning and your philosophy, not your anger.
An embryo is the whole human, although just very young. In its natural state, it WILL grow, form a personality and wreck daddy's car in about 17 years.
That help?
Indigent? (Score:2, Funny)