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    Chinese Artificially Alter Genes Of Twins Born There

    The Chinese scientist ostensibly performed the alteration to block susceptibility to HIV, but other scientists are aware, as was the Chinese scientist doing the gene splice, that the removal of the CCR5 gene in the DNA sequence also has been shown to increase the cognitive capacity when done in mice. The scientific community is up in arms.

    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...rains-altered/
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    Can we do that? We could make a lib or rep as many as needed.
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    The fear seems to about 50-50 of whether when it gets really going - and make no mistake, it will get going (in fact, it just did, which is the point of this post) - we will have a bunch Dr. Moreau freaks on our hands, or what were formerly normal humans will be relegated to the ash heap of history by the new breed of genetically enhanced super humans looking on their progenitors as zoo animals or beasts of burden. Both of which is what is freaking out the scientist who see the hand writing on the wall.
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    I have to confess to having only scanned the link and so I might be asking a silly question.

    When this was originally reported the good Dr Frankenstein had disappeared. Has he once again surfaced?
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    He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher responsible for the purported altered embryo and births, is reportedly under investigation by Chinese authorities. He apparently has dropped out of sight since his press conference in early December last year.
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    Thank you---I wonder how "far" he dropped out
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Thank you---I wonder how "far" he dropped out
    He may be longing for the freedom of North Korea under the benevolent protection of Kim Jong-un......Ben
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    Do you remember Yao Ming, the 7’6” Chinese basketball center who played for the Houston Rockets? It was reported at the time that he was the product of a Chinese state breeding program that matched his parents, 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Yao Zhiyuan and 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Fang Fengdi, for the express purpose of producing internationally competitive basketball players for the glory of the state. Of course, that process, if true, was conventional in nature as opposed to this one, but if the will is there on a state level, then what’s the difference to statists like the pols in China? Perhaps Zi is a bit different now than Mao was in 1980 when Yao was bred, but maybe not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    He may be longing for the freedom of North Korea under the benevolent protection of Kim Jong-un......Ben
    I suspect that in NK this dude might be exalted.
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    Maybe in NK he could dial in some height genes to overcome the malnutrition.
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    Better yet, dial in their digestive system to be more efficient on tree bark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Better yet, dial in their digestive system to be more efficient on tree bark.
    Bingo! You should be an investor.
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    I'm all about productivity
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