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> World's first GM babies born
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> by MICHAEL HANLON, Daily Mail
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> The world's first geneticallymodified 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.
>
> Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, the researchers, led by fertility
> pioneer Professor Jacques Cohen, say that this 'is the first case of human
> germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children'.
>
> Some experts severely criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of the
> Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: 'Regarding the
> treat-ment of the infertile, there is no evidence that this technique is
> worth doing . . . I am very surprised that it was even carried out at this
> stage. It would certainly not be allowed in Britain.'
>
> John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn
> Children, said: 'One has tremendous sympathy for couples who suffer
> infertility problems. But this seems to be a further illustration of the
> fact that the whole process of in vitro fertilisation as a means of
> conceiving babies leads to babies being regarded as objects on a production
> line.
>
> 'It is a further and very worrying step down the wrong road for humanity.'
> Professor Cohen and his colleagues diagnosed that the women were infertile
> because they had defects in tiny structures in their egg cells, called
> mitochondria.
>
> They took eggs from donors and, using a fine needle, sucked some of the
> internal material - containing 'healthy' mitochondria - and injected it into
> eggs from the women wanting to conceive.
>
> Because mitochondria contain genes, the babies resulting from the treatment
> have inherited DNA from both women. These genes can now be passed down the
> germline along the maternal line.
>
> A spokesman for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA),
> which regulates 'assisted reproduction' technology in Britain, said that it
> would not license the technique here because it involved altering the
> germline.
>
> Jacques Cohen is regarded as a brilliant but controversial scientist who has
> pushed the boundaries of assisted reproduction technologies.
>
> He developed a technique which allows infertile men to have their own
> children, by injecting sperm DNA straight into the egg in the lab.
>
> Prior to this, only infertile women were able to conceive using IVF. Last
> year, Professor Cohen said that his expertise would allow him to clone
> children --a prospect treated with horror by the mainstream scientific
> community.
>
> 'It would be an afternoon's work for one of my students,' he said, adding
> that he had been approached by 'at least three' individuals wishing to
> create a cloned child, but had turned down their requests.
>
> Read more:
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