The world’s first gene edited babies have been born into the world. Chinese twins Nana and Lulu had their DNA edited using CRISPR gene editing technology, by geneticist He Jiankui.
Mr. He is a team leader at Southern University of Science and Technology in China. The twins’ DNA has now been altered to protect them from HIV.
This is the first instance of humans being born into the world with edited DNA….
…THAT WE KNOW OF.
I would invite you to consult your life experience on planet earth and ask yourself:
How many designer babies have already been born, and NOT broadcast to the worldwide media?
Mr. He, after all, hired a publicist to help him broadcast the news about this, and notes that another pregnancy is underway with gene-edited babies.
Details about the experiment:
Everyone has denounced this, including the Chinese government. The genetics community is outraged, anticipating backlash and regulations.
I’m familiar with official ethical statements about gene editing by large bodies such as the National Academy of Sciences. At first glance they seem reasonable.
But what is almost always omitted is any admission that we barely understand the process by which evolutionary systems generated the code in the first place!
The elephant in the room is:
While people talk about humans now improving the genetic code intentionally for the first time in history, they never bother to mention that the best engineers at Microsoft and Google don’t even know how to write code as good as the code that bacteria write all the time!
Bacteria evolve all by themselves. Microsoft Windows does not.
So…. how much are we really going to “fix” nature?
Until we face this question, we’re not being honest with ourselves.
And unanswered questions never go away.
Perry Marshall
Download The First 3 Chapters of Evolution 2.0 For Free, Here – https://evo2.org/evolution/Where Did Life And The Genetic Code Come From? Can The Answer Build Superior AI? The #1 Mystery In Science Now Has A $10 Million Prize. Learn More About It, Here – https://www.herox.com/evolution2.0