Science OHSU Scientist Successfully Modifies DNA in Human Embryos

[Shaboid]

In breakthrough, OHSU corrects defective gene that causes deadly disease

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2017/08/ohsu_genetic_research_that_cou.html#incart_std

A scientific breakthrough in Oregon that offers hope to those with genetic defects that cause deadly diseases faces steep hurdles to be tested.

Congress has enacted barriers to clinical trials for such genetic trials, and the National Institutes of Health has banned funding.

Even scientists have reservations.

But that doesn't discourage lead researcher Shoukhrat Mitalipov, head of OHSU's center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy. He hopes his success in the laboratory will help soothe fears about genetic manipulation of human embryos.

His team corrected a faulty gene that causes a heart condition that is the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes. The same technique could be used against genes that cause thousands of diseases, including some breast and ovarian cancers.

Two research candidates, Mitalipov said, are two breast cancer gene mutations that have prompted many women, including actress Angelina Jolie, to undergo mastectomies to prevent breast and ovarian cancer.

In theory, the genes could be corrected, preventing generations of women from developing cancer caused by those mutations. But Mitalipov's technique would have to be tested in a clinical trial that is banned in the United States.

A lot of ethical, religious, social, and scientific aspects to this. Would you be okay with OHSU running a clinical trial right in our back yard?

 

[MarAzul]

Oh man! This could be yuge! Bump up the thought and drop the feel a notch and it smooths out.

 

[stampedehero]

I'm OK with it. If the clinical trial testing occurs in Ohio, I really don't care. All the other peer groups recognize this as an alteration of humanity. It can happen anywhere beyond US borders too!.

 

[Shaboid]

Oh man! This could be yuge! Bump up the thought and drop the feel a notch and it smooths out.

Drop the feel? What are you even talking about?!

 

[barfo]

Drop the feel? What are you even talking about?!

His theory is that everyone else 'feels' too much. MarAzul is a purely rational being, like Spock, or perhaps like a parking meter.

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

So...... about fixing male pattern baldness.......

 

[Shaboid]

His theory is that everyone else 'feels' too much. MarAzul is a purely rational being, like Spock, or perhaps like a parking meter.

barfo

I get that, but I don't understand where my OP said anything about feelings. For being strictly rational, his comment wasn't at all rational.

 

[Minstrel]

Genetic research and nanotechnology offer a ton of possibility, so I hope that research is allowed to proceed with some amount of oversight.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I am Legend.

Good thing humans never encounter unforseen results when pursuing scientific achievement.

 

[barfo]

I get that, but I don't understand where my OP said anything about feelings. For being strictly rational, his comment wasn't at all rational.

That's the fun of it.

I'm sick of you hating on cherries! It's because, don't you speek French?

barfo

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I get that, but I don't understand where my OP said anything about feelings. For being strictly rational, his comment wasn't at all rational.

seeing gene modification in action tickled that sci-fi part of his brain and he started fantasizing about eliminating liberals via eugenics

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

seeing gene modification in action tickled that sci-fi part of his brain and he started fantasizing about eliminating liberals via eugenics

Ha! Well, if science fixes multiple genetic mistakes with this technique there is a good chance they get rid of liberals by accident.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Ha! Well, if science fixes multiple genetic mistakes with this technique there is a good chance they get rid of liberals by accident.

Funny I was thinking it'd get rid of conservatives.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Funny I was thinking it'd get rid of conservatives.

Probably just people who watch Hannity and listen to Rush Limbaugh. Those aren't really conservatives, they're sheep.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Probably just people who watch Hannity and listen to Rush Limbaugh. Those aren't really conservatives, they're sheep.

Maybe the reason we can't debate anymore is because each side sees the other as totally defective, instead of accepting that only conservatives are defective we're all the same.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Maybe the reason we can't debate anymore is because each side sees the other as totally defective, instead of accepting that only conservatives are defective we're all the same.

Ha ha. Conservatives are just less defective.

 

[MarAzul]

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Ha ha. Conservatives are just less defective.

Because caring is a defect.

 

[riverman]

Bump up the thought and drop the feel a notch and it smooths out.

That's the funkiest sentence you've ever posted! Very James Brown! Didn't think you had it in you!

 

[Shaboid]

That's the funkiest sentence you've ever posted! Very James Brown! Didn't think you had it in you!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/james-brown-celebrity-hot-tub-party/n9263?snl=0

I really wish I could have embed this video. "Swimmin' in a hottub!!!"

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I bet human embryos taste like chicken.

 

[Shaboid]

I bet human embryos taste like chicken.

Everything tastes like chicken.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Because caring is a defect.

Caring about everything on Earth is a defect. Caring about everything on Earth as if it happens to you personally is a defect.

Not caring about anything else on Earth is also a defect. Which is why many conservatives suck and are hypocritical.

 

[MARIS61]

Every attempt by humans to improve upon nature's supposed flaws has always created worse flaws, because in reality nature is perfect.

 

[HailBlazers]

Every attempt by humans to improve upon nature's supposed flaws has always created worse flaws, because in reality nature is perfect.

Totally agree, God's design is.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Every attempt by humans to improve upon nature's supposed flaws has always created worse flaws, because in reality nature is perfect.

Totally agree, God's design is.

Alright, explain HCP.

 

[dviss1]

Totally agree, God's design is.

Gonna throw a monkey wrench here:

Since God is perfect and makes no mistakes and Gay people are born that way, then they were designed that way by God...