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The first genetically modified children would be born in Shenzhen. The future of the human race lies in the laboratories of China and the United States. And Europe, the source of human knowledge, deals with the past, says Raicheva.
The spirit is out of the bottle – Genetically modified people are here. Two scientists, who appeared a few weeks ago in Shenzhen, China, are the first human genes born with a modified genome, according to Chinese scientist He Zhangwei, who led the scientific experiment. Twins are children from a Chinese family in which one of the parents is the HIV recipient. They are designed according to an in vitro procedure and are programmed to resist the AIDS virus. The attempt to replace the two mirror genes responsible for the immune response was successful with only one of the children. In the latter, there is a mixture that will not give him resistance. This first human experience is possible thanks to the CRISPR / CAS9 Genetic Edge technology.
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About benefits and damages
Genetic engineering is not new, humanity has been perfecting its tools of intervention in the genome of a large number of species for 40 years. The big breakthrough in the editing of human DNA comes from CRISPR, a technology borrowed from a natural defense mechanism of bacteria and archeas. The discovery of bioengineers Jennifer Dudna and Emmanuel Sherpatie of 2012 allows the replacement of specific genes in a relatively simple and inexpensive way. Using CAS9 protein, scissors are created to cut DNA into a precisely specified RNA nucleotide site. By using its healing mechanisms, a new DNA model is introduced into the double strand of the molecule. The resulting gene, which is pbaded on to subsequent generations when it is replaced at the embryonic stage.
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This new method can become a victory over oncological and conbad diseases, lead to the creation of universal vaccines of a new type, bring immense benefits to human health and longevity. But at the same time, this could be the key to another social order based on genetic inequalities (or equations by unification) could be the first step towards creating a new human race in its evolutionary sense, could divide humanity into two. It depends on where we build the border, and it seems we do not have the tools to create a unified, universal human approach and that borders simply will not exist.
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In the United States and China, the technology has already reached the laboratory of the school. A reasonable gesture, given the history of the personal computer – its democratization in the 1980s, then its transformation into a daily subject and its economic benefits. In Germany, however, only accredited laboratories for genetic research have the right to work with CRISPR. And the only European country that allows genetic experiments with people in early embryonic phase is England. At that time, universities and private companies in the United States and China made considerable progress in the genetic race which, unlike the cosmic race, would have real and immediate consequences for humanity.
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Where is Europe?
For the first time in history, the Old Continent is not a leader in science and technology. Europe, source of human knowledge, philosophy and progress, deals with its past the future of the human race is in laboratories in the United States and China. The genetic engineering revolution unfolds before our eyes wide open. Affordable and unregulated, it transforms homo sapiens into a demiurg of evolution and opens the way to inequalities and opportunities unimaginable to the human race. The patent war on ultra-vaccinated and superhuman is a fact, and we Europeans not only do not participate in it, but as if we do not notice it.
Do we want "designer babies"?
Today, we are deciding how our children live in a world of genetic inequalities through market-regulated access to products such as increased life expectancy, disease-free embryos, and diseases. universal genetic vaccines. Today, the first genetically modified babies are born. Today, the first emotional robot receives Saudi citizenship. Today, it is the future of science fiction that has excited the spirit of our children in the books of Simak and Asimov. And our disunited humanity, and even more so our torn Europe, are absolutely unprepared to face the enormous philosophical questions posed by the revolution of bioengineering.
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