In what will likely only lead to the inevitable, designer babies are set to become a norm on planet earth in the near future.
Imagine a world in which you can design your very own baby. One where you can pick your artificially planned newborn’s DNA from at least 3 different gene pools. A real life customized test tube baby. Possibly one which will resist certain inherent genetic flaws such as hereditary disorders, health problems and more. Well that’s just exactly what some scientists and British regulators are now pushing for by the year’s end.
In fact, Britain’s fertility regulator recently released a report which basically states that advanced scientific techniques to create a hybrid human embryo from the DNA of 3 people is not “unsafe”, thus opening the door to the genetic-modification of the human species.
“Until a healthy baby is born, we cannot say 100 percent that these techniques are safe,” said Dr. Andy Greenfield, who chaired the expert panel behind the report.
The techniques are meant to stop mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their babies and involve altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it into a woman. Such methods have only been allowed for research in a laboratory, but the U.K. department of health has said it hopes new legislation will be in place by the end of the year that allows treatment of patients.
According to the Daily Mail, at least 150 human animal hybrids have been made in U.K. labs.
