Engineered Babies

Lissa_Kaye

Looks like genetically engineering babies is now in the works. I found this article interesting. I am curious how everyone else sees it. I think it is great for disease prevention, but at the same time think it will open the door to "designer children". Like choosing a child eye color, hair color etc... What do you guys think?

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/uk-vote-creating-babies-dna-3-people-article-1.2101434

ilfaith

If I could just engineer them to listen, I wouldn't care what color their eyes were or how tall they'd grow to be.

Sinistrous

Oh noes.. It has begun. We are now turning into skinny, 1 colored, bald, tall and VERY smart aliens...

We are "extraterrestrials", but we've only come back to watch our own demise 3:


(You can take this srs if you want or you cannot, matters to me not which you choose).

stephanieluvspb

ilfaith wrote: »

If I could just engineer them to listen, I wouldn't care what color their eyes were or how tall they'd grow to be.

Lol! Agree 100%

NJGamerChick

This isn't something new. It's happened for years. I've heard of parents tailoring babies to help their already living children with certain diseases by making them perfect donor matches, for example, for bone marrow and whatnot.

softblondechick

Franken-baby! Can they take the "Fat Gene" out?

Alluminati

I skimmed but, this is so sick people can have kids without the children inheriting their issues? I don't get it.

QueenBishOTUniverse

Awesome. I loved GATTACA.

Lissa_Kaye

Wow, that's a little sad. I would hope that the children would be allowed to decide if they want to donate or not, in that case. It reminds me of the movie "The Island".

undergloom

If science fiction has taught me anything, it's that this is going to backfire in a terrifying way

Sinistrous

QueenBishOTUniverse wrote: »

Awesome. I loved GATTACA.

Silly invalids.

Cindy4FunFit

The unintended, unknowable consequences should be enough to terrify us all.

kinkyslinky16

I'm just pissed I was too late to get in on this. I'm 37 weeks pregnant and if I knew I could engineer my baby to not have my husband's inability to listen and his laziness trait, I'd jump all up on that.

myfelinepal

The question is can they engineer a lower calorie baby that will fit my macros?

granturismo

Lissa_Kaye wrote: »

... I am curious how everyone else sees it. I think it is great for disease prevention, but at the same time think it will open the door to "designer children". Like choosing a child eye color, hair color etc... What do you guys think?

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/uk-vote-creating-babies-dna-3-people-article-1.2101434

Its not about designer babies, the technique uses the nuclear DNA from both parents but substitutes mitochondrial DNA from a healthy donor when one or both parents have a genetic code for an inherited disease in their mitochondrial DNA.

_John_

I'll not argue the merits of the should or should not, but the "that you can" is important to science.

ChicagOH

Our advances in science will always outrun the social growth needed in order to use it effectively and ethically. #conundrum