Given that the technology has been existing then having the first genetically modified humans seems of no surprise to me.
From Daily Mail.com
The world's first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.
The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.
So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.
Fifteen of the children were born in the past three years as a result of one experimental programme at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.
The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilised in an attempt to enable them to conceive.
Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults --two women and one man.
The fact that the children have inherited the extra genes and incorporated them into their 'germline' means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline - in effect tinkering with the very make-up of our species - is a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
One way or another people’s curiosity will lead to more experimentation, which is why we should expect human cloning to be next, in spite political opposition.
This reminds me of two “cloning is bad'” movies: Scarlett Johansson’s The Island and Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s the 6th Day
Expect the rapid changes in technology to challenge people’s ingrained beliefs and lifestyles.
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