A Cobra do Gênesis: China "Editou" Gene de Crianças Pela Primeira Vez

Pesquisador chinês disse que realizou "edição genética" pela primeira vez, criando o primeiro ser humano com DNA geneticamente "editado". O pesquisador, He Jiankui, de Shenzhen, disse que alterou os embriões para sete casais durante os tratamentos de fertilidade, com uma gravidez resultante até agora. Ele disse que seu objetivo não é curar ou prevenir uma doença hereditária, mas tentar dar uma característica que poucas pessoas têm naturalmente - uma capacidade de resistir a uma possível infecção futura pelo HIV, o vírus da Aids.

Hummm...terrível, a eugenia se desenvolve no mundo, matando os que consideram fracos e tentanto criar super-homens. É a cobra do Gênesis com mais força no mundo.

Gênesis e genes, a cobra não dorme.

Esse tipo de pesquisa é proibido em inúmeros países, pois o gene "editado" é transmitido hereditariamente.

Não há confirmação científica do que diz o tal Jiankui, e "alguns cientistas" em conferência que ouviram o que ele argumenta o condenaram fortemente.

Vejam parte do relato do AP News:

AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.

If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.

A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes.

Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.

The researcher, He Jiankui of Shenzhen, said he altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments, with one pregnancy resulting thus far. He said his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but to try to bestow a trait that few people naturally have — an ability to resist possible future infection with HIV, the AIDS virus.

He said the parents involved declined to be identified or interviewed, and he would not say where they live or where the work was done.

There is no independent confirmation of He’s claim, and it has not been published in a journal, where it would be vetted by other experts. He revealed it Monday in Hong Kong to one of the organizers of an international conference on gene editing that is set to begin Tuesday, and earlier in exclusive interviews with The Associated Press.

“I feel a strong responsibility that it’s not just to make a first, but also make it an example,” He told the AP. “Society will decide what to do next” in terms of allowing or forbidding such science.

Some scientists were astounded to hear of the claim and strongly condemned it.