Another Woman In China Is Pregnant With A Genetically Engineered Baby

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At a scientific summit in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the scientist who created the first genetically engineered babies revealed that a second woman is pregnant with a gene-edited embryo.

Jiankui He of China’s Southern University of Science and Technology jolted the world this week when the news broke that he had made the first gene-edited people. His ethically dubious experiment produced twin girls, Lulu and Nana, engineered to lack an HIV-susceptibility gene.

“There is another one, another potential pregnancy,” he told attendees at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in a presentation about his work, reporting that the pregnancy was in its early stages, and not indicating whether it was one or two embryos. Seven couples were enrolled in the experiment, he said, which in all created 31 gene-edited human embryos for pregnancies. But the work, he said, is “now on hold due to the current situation.”

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[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Ok...this is getting weird... 

[ALGAYDO 35,379]

The future is now and she’s crazy af 

[REALITY 80,244]

Personally, I think it’s just a matter of time until things like this become the norm. Science and technology are going to continue to advance and this’ll probably just be the beginning of what tech can do to our bodies.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

I have a feeling these babies if brought to full term will have deformities and not survive long...idk...just a feeling since it's so unnatural 

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

So ethics are irrelevant now? 

[AndyDWUW 3,971]

Solve climate change and poverty instead!! Omg 

[River 128,572]

I find it fascinating..we are unstoppable..

[Cape God 233]

I hope this gene-editing thing won't produce an antichrist. 

[Henri Bardot 3,990]

20 minutes ago, AndyDWUW said:

Solve climate change and poverty instead!! Omg 

That will never happen. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Henri Bardot said:

That will never happen. 

 

Yes we can 

[Wolf 1,328]

 

[CyanLights 15,576]

I understand the appeal, but this whole "designer baby" and genetically modified genomes for babies is going to lead to so many problems. 

Soon everybody is going to look a certain way, or even the same  

[Poissonche 12,366]

34 minutes ago, CyanLights said:

I understand the appeal, but this whole "designer baby" and genetically modified genomes for babies is going to lead to so many problems. 

Soon everybody is going to look a certain way, or even the same  

Epione is shook

[Henri Bardot 3,990]

2 hours ago, CyanLights said:

I understand the appeal, but this whole "designer baby" and genetically modified genomes for babies is going to lead to so many problems. 

Soon everybody is going to look a certain way, or even the same  

I don't think they're capable to program traits.