"Cure embryos, yes, improve the species, no"

The announcement of the birth of Lulu and Nana, the first "genetically modified babies," triggered a huge uproar in the global scientific community. The genome of these binoculars would have been altered to make them "resistant" to the AIDS virus, thanks to the use of the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. This allows you to cut pieces in the DNA and replace them with other sequences. This experiment, whose reality and results are yet to be confirmed, contravenes all the canons of ethics.

Professor Stanislas Lyonnet, Director General of the Imagine Institute (Institute of Genetic Diseases), believes that, in his personal capacity, this controversy should not allow the use of CRISPR in medicine, which will eventually cure many genetic diseases – including perhaps one day on embryos.

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<p clbad = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Professor Stanislas Lyonnet: Like many, I am of course very shocked by the announcements of researcher He Jiankui. Everything is open to criticism in his experience, if it is confirmed. Starting with the non-respect of the moratorium on the editing of the genome of human embryos, on which researchers from all over the world had agreed. And especially the fact of having used CRISPR not on a "sick" embryo carrying a genetic mutation, but to confer resistance to the AIDS virus. We are not here in the framework of the care but of the improvement of the species, even of transhumanism, and thus of eugenics. This is an unacceptable drift. Not to mention the information of families, what will be said later to these girls, the funding of the test, the lack of transparency of this work … "data-reactid =" 25 ">Professor Stanislas Lyonnet: Like many, I am of course very shocked by the announcements of researcher He Jiankui. Everything is open to criticism in his experience, if it is confirmed. Starting with the non-respect of the moratorium on the editing of the genome of human embryos, on which researchers from all over the world had agreed. And especially the fact of having used CRISPR not on a "sick" embryo carrying a genetic mutation, but to confer resistance to the AIDS virus. We are not here in the framework of the care but of the improvement of the species, even of transhumanism, and thus of eugenics. This is an unacceptable drift. Not to mention the information of families, what will be said later to these girls, the funding of the test, the lack of transparency of this work …

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