The arguments against genetically engineered "designer" babies just don't add up, says Arthur Caplan.
Genetically engineered, genetic engineering.
Scientists have created the first genetically engineered primate, a baby monkey with a gene from jellyfish in his cells.
Gerber and Heinz have said they would avoid genetically engineered ingredients in baby food, and Monsanto, the leader in biotech seeds, has been accused in a lawsuit of selling those seeds without adequately testing them, a charge the company denies.
Gerber, a division of Vasella's Novartis, publicly repudiated genetically engineered ingredients in its baby food; Gates chose the anti-genetic engineering (and corrupt) Kofi Annan to head his African agriculture initiative; and Whole Foods is fanatical about organic foods (in part because genetically engineered components are strictly proscribed).
Your story in this week's issue, "Are We Not Men?," envisions a time in which CRISPR has gone mainstream, and animals and babies are genetically engineered.
Conservative ethicists warned that the technology would ultimately create freakishly malformed babies or, equally monstrous, designer children genetically engineered to be stronger and smarter than the rest.
Recombinant FVIII is a glycoprotein synthesized by a genetically engineered Chinese hamster ovary cell line or by a baby hamster kidney cell line.
Researchers in New York have created what is believed to be the first genetically engineered human embryo, which critics immediately branded as a step toward "designer babies".
Since the introduction of genetically engineered foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S., and animal studies have shown devastating effects from genetically engineered soy including allergies, sterility, birth defects, and offspring death rates up to five times higher than normal.
