China shocks world by genetically engineering human embryos
The telegraph UK
Chinese scientists create first genetically modified human embryos
NY Daily News (and surprisingly NOT full of tabloid panic.)
Both fairly long articles.
Designer Babies, One Step Closer
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Designer babies, one step closer
 Didn't Nazi Germany dabble in eugenics before?
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Post #2: Godwin'd.
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Hey! It's not like I changed the subject to Hitler....intentionally!
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Can't say that I'm surprised it was China.
With a one-child policy, wouldn't you want to be sure your one-child was the best you could get?
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At least one good thing will come of designer babies.
All of those annoying "my child is a TERRIFIC KID" bumper stickers will become redundant.
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im all for it better children = better sweat shops no ?
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Fenrir.Atheryn said: » At least one good thing will come of designer babies. All of those annoying "my child is a TERRIFIC KID" bumper stickers will become redundant. Or we'll have rear-window, stick family decals that will all be depicted by petri dish, petri dish, petri dish, petri dish, dog and/or cat.
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Like I said in the other thread: bring it on!!
maybe the designer kids will remember to use non lead based paints in toys they sell to walmart
heh, you ugly people need all the help you can get.
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Or maybe, more accurately: 
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needs a duck dynasty beard to keep the yokels happy
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a.) We always knew this sort of thing was going to happen eventually.
b.) We haven't even figured out how to successfully clone fully-functioning DNA and grow it into a living creature. I'm not too concerned that the Chinese Olympic Big *** team will be winning gold any time soon.
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Seraph.Ramyrez said: » That wouldn't surprise me. I already know of several people who have "sold" advertising space on their bodies to local businesses, mostly for a quick buck and some media attention. Probably won't be long before there's a similar "design my baby!" campaign. Quote: They also found a number of unexpected mutations in genes which should not have been effected by the technique. /sigh when will they learn.
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We are learning. More everyday.
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Nothing to worry about because this will never succeed.
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It will. Genetics aren't magic, the real problem is mapping the entire genome which is why a worldwide project for it exists. Unfortunately until we don't find out what every single gene is involved with there will always be side effects to genetic manipulation.
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Valefor.Sehachan said: » It will. Genetics aren't magic, the real problem is mapping the entire genome which is why a worldwide project for it exists. Unfortunately until we don't find out what every single gene is involved with there will always be side effects to genetic manipulation.  I'm really getting some use from this new doodle.
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Sounds like the Futures
Made of Virtual Insanity
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Honestly, I say bring it on.
It's got to happen. It will probably go too far and cause all kinds of problems, but we need to get it out of our system some time... Valefor.Sehachan said: » It will. Genetics aren't magic, the real problem is mapping the entire genome which is why a worldwide project for it exists. Unfortunately until we don't find out what every single gene is involved with there will always be side effects to genetic manipulation. I feel like we are a long way from understanding the function of each gene although we are learning a lot more. Even if we do map and understand all coding genes there will still be more work to do. Relatively speaking microRNAs are pretty new to the game (we have tons to learn about those still) and we still don't understand epigenetics as well as we should. I'm not shocked that the crisper system gave some unintended side effects... it can do that in mice too! I guess my biggest fear with designer babies is that they start eliminating 'junk DNA' only to find out that it was not in fact junk.
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Quantum computers maybe will help us in making the task easier. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 20~ years there is a sudden acceleration in our progress.
Grumpy Cat said: » Sounds like the Futures Made of Virtual Insanity That's going to be stuck in my head for the remainder of the day, thanks. :/
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so is the religious argument reserved for the second page ?
So how long till mutants and augmentation? Cause I want mutants and augmentation. Preferably in the same place.
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