UK Scientists Close to Creating Three-Parent Babies: Creating Children With Three Genetic Parents
[excerpted] The United Kingdom has taken one step closer to creating children with three genetic parents. Last week legislation that will allow fertility clinics to conduct “mitochondrial replacement” in human embryos went into effect.
“Mitochondrial replacement” (MR) is a group of techniques that aim to genetically engineer embryos to be without certain types of mitochondria disease. Mitochondria are organelles in our cells that produce energy. They have their own DNA called mtDNA. We inherit our mtDNA, which is separate from the DNA in the nucleus of the cells, only from our mother. If a woman has a mutation in her mtDNA that causes disease, she cannot help but pass that on to her children.
MR techniques essentially create embryos with the genetic material from three people – two women and one man. In one MR procedure, a donor egg is emptied of its nucleus leaving healthy mitochondria behind. The nucleus of the woman with mitochondrial disease is placed inside and that genetically-engineered egg is fertilized with the father’s sperm.
MR is considered germ-line genetic engineering because any girl conceived with this technique will pass this modification onto her offspring. Germ-line genetic engineering is illegal in the UK. Earlier this year, Parliament voted to allow MR in fertility clinics despite that ban on germ-line genetic engineering. Last week that change took effect.
The regulatory body that controls the fertility industry, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has yet to grant licenses to perform MR, but the government has now paved the way for the HFEA to approve the procedure. [Full length article is informative; see at link]
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Apparently the UK Parliament approved the mad-science back in February of this year [2015], which as of last week - end of October 2015 - has now gone into effect. GMO humans, or, germ-line genetically engineered, to use the scientific designation, are about to become reality in the UK. Mentioned in the above article is the serious consideration that when a 'gmo human' reproduces, that gene-alteration becomes permanent in the human species. Reproduction of these altered gene-lines would effectively introduce fundamental, and irreversible, changes into the human genome.
The last time the human genome was tampered with [Gen. 6:4], the whole earth, and all mankind, was destroyed:
(13) "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth... (17) And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die" Genesis 6:13-17
As it was in the days of Noah, is it not so once again?
Seeing this, then, there is good reason, according to the Holy Scriptures, to definitely sit up and take notice, for '...as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be' - Matthew 24:37 [cf. Luke 21:36]
Rev. 18:4
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see: The "Days Of Noe" Are Here, The "Coming Of The Son Of Man" Will Certainly Follow - CHM
[excerpted] The United Kingdom has taken one step closer to creating children with three genetic parents. Last week legislation that will allow fertility clinics to conduct “mitochondrial replacement” in human embryos went into effect.
“Mitochondrial replacement” (MR) is a group of techniques that aim to genetically engineer embryos to be without certain types of mitochondria disease. Mitochondria are organelles in our cells that produce energy. They have their own DNA called mtDNA. We inherit our mtDNA, which is separate from the DNA in the nucleus of the cells, only from our mother. If a woman has a mutation in her mtDNA that causes disease, she cannot help but pass that on to her children.
MR techniques essentially create embryos with the genetic material from three people – two women and one man. In one MR procedure, a donor egg is emptied of its nucleus leaving healthy mitochondria behind. The nucleus of the woman with mitochondrial disease is placed inside and that genetically-engineered egg is fertilized with the father’s sperm.
MR is considered germ-line genetic engineering because any girl conceived with this technique will pass this modification onto her offspring. Germ-line genetic engineering is illegal in the UK. Earlier this year, Parliament voted to allow MR in fertility clinics despite that ban on germ-line genetic engineering. Last week that change took effect.
The regulatory body that controls the fertility industry, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has yet to grant licenses to perform MR, but the government has now paved the way for the HFEA to approve the procedure. [Full length article is informative; see at link]
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Apparently the UK Parliament approved the mad-science back in February of this year [2015], which as of last week - end of October 2015 - has now gone into effect. GMO humans, or, germ-line genetically engineered, to use the scientific designation, are about to become reality in the UK. Mentioned in the above article is the serious consideration that when a 'gmo human' reproduces, that gene-alteration becomes permanent in the human species. Reproduction of these altered gene-lines would effectively introduce fundamental, and irreversible, changes into the human genome.
The last time the human genome was tampered with [Gen. 6:4], the whole earth, and all mankind, was destroyed:
(13) "And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth... (17) And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die" Genesis 6:13-17
As it was in the days of Noah, is it not so once again?
Seeing this, then, there is good reason, according to the Holy Scriptures, to definitely sit up and take notice, for '...as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be' - Matthew 24:37 [cf. Luke 21:36]
Rev. 18:4
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see: The "Days Of Noe" Are Here, The "Coming Of The Son Of Man" Will Certainly Follow - CHM
2 comments :
Thank-you for making us aware what people are doing in the name of science.
The messing around with human genetics grieves my soul to its depths. Who exactly is man mindful of?
LORD Jesus, protect us from wiles of the devil.
For more on the creation of GM babies. Also follow links in artilce:
http://www.cmfblog.org.uk/2015/09/18/in-five-years-time-or-less-expect-to-see-the-uk-permit-the-creation-of-gm-babies/
Men are meddling with things. God created babies to be formed in secret.
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