(NaturalNews) An undated article discussing the invention of
genetically-modified (GM) human beings that was published by the U.K.'s DailyMail
at least 10 years ago is gaining fresh attention from the online
community these days. And even though the heinous practice, which is
known as cytoplasmic transfer, is technically illegal in the U.S., the
current regulatory framework offers little in the way of enforcement
capacity against those that breach this moratorium.
Because the DailyMail
article is not dated, some have mistakenly taken it to be current, and
have adopted the position that GM babies may potentially become the next
big thing in reproductive medicine. But it appears as though this is
not actually the case, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) apparently banned this form of genetic manipulation back in the
early 2000s after declaring it to be under its regulatory jurisdiction.
According to the original DailyMail article, Jacques Cohen, a former employee at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Science of Saint Barnabas
in New Jersey, came up with a way to blend the genes of multiple
mothers into a single egg that can then be fertilized with sperm from a
male. The end product is a child with a genetic blueprint from three
different parents, a process of human manipulation known as "germline"
alteration.
This unscrupulous discovery, which only further
taints the natural order of life with man-made genetic modifications,
reportedly led to the development of at least 15 GM babies
at that time, which are presumably still alive and now progressing
through their adolescent years. And according to the original report,
any children born to these GM individuals will also bear these modified
GM traits, as they are inherently passed down from generation to
generation.
"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," wrote Michael
Hanlon for the Daily Mail back at that time. "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."
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