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For the First Time, U.K. Allows Clinic to Proceed with "3-Parent" Baby Procedure I'm feeling that "Exogensis" vibe. The license, granted to a team of doctors in Newcastle, northern England, means the first child created in Britain using the mitochondrial pronuclear transfer technique could be born before the end of this year.
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cloning. just wait until THAT is permitted. | |
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i am fine with this and cloning... what will be interesting for 3 parent-baby or a clone what will that say if anything about the nature. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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What's that damned movie I saw with my son years ago--about prejudice against people born with "defects" and they had to "pass" as genetically perfect??? "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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OnlyNDaUsa said: i am fine with this and cloning... what will be interesting for 3 parent-baby or a clone what will that say if anything about the nature. The only problem I'd have with cloning is that the child wouldn't have a normal life. He/she would always be looked at as different. And that's assuming things go to plan. Then you'd have to take into account that there's a strong possibility that the child could be born with any number if defects. I'm not talking about webbed fingers or anything, I'm talking about birth defects exclusive to the cloning process that we don't even know about yet. There's no guarantee that it would work perfectly first time so you're taking a massive risk of creating a life just to put it through tremendous pain and suffering. It's not worth it. In relation to the "3 parent" thing, if it's going to prevent genetic diseases being passed on, then it's a way for many people to have children who otherwise may not have that option. And that's a good thing. | |
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The last I heard about cloning is that it isn't all it's cracked up to be. "Dolly" the sheep ended up dying before her "clone" mother with a bunch of problems. Cloning is like copying pages of an original book on a copy machine apparently--the more you copy it from the original, the more the quality degrades. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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wasn't the same thing said about test tube babies? "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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she did die young... something weird too. I forget... "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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speaking of genetic testing and without wanting to get this thread kicked into P&R how do we feel about mandatory DNA testing by our employers and health care providers?: Your DNA and medical info aren’t the business of your employer or the government posted at 11:31 am on March 11, 2017 by Jazz Shaw (continued at link) With the advent of a new GOP controlled Congress and White House we were expecting an avalanche of new legislation (and executive actions) as the Republicans sought to get out to a running start. It’s important to get all you can done in the first year since the toxic atmosphere of the midterm elections will begin slowing any progress before you know it. But even for conservatives, this means it’s more important than ever to keep an eye on the raft of bills suddenly springing up and watching out for dangerous signs of overreach. One example of that appears to have cropped up in a new proposal which would give employers greatly ex...nformation, even going so far as mandatory DNA testing results, of workers who hope to have health coverage. (New York Times)
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Wow, does that mean that prejudice against "pre-existing conditions" will make a come back? "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Also, what's next? Testing someone to see if they will potentially commit crimes? Don't laugh--the issue was explored in my favorite TV show Law and Order. So were other genetic questions. In all three series. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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some workplaces have employees undergo pscyhometric testing before employment to see if the job candidate's 'psychology' fits the job description. that smells like discrimination to me, since no test can truly accurately measure a human being's qualities, imo.: http://www.psychometricinstitute.com.au/matching_based_on_psychometric_tests.html excerpted: Matching candidates and jobs based on psychometric testsMore and more, organisations are using psychometric tests to aid the employee selection process, to help them get the ‘right’ person. The use of psychometric testing gives large and small organisations a competitive edge. Organisations want to know more about job seekers these days, wanting to discover their core competencies through the selection process. Being aware of these desirable core competencies is a good place for you to start, so that you can then better prepare for and practice psychometric tests such as aptitude tests and personality tests. Certain interesting trends in organisation design highlight that the compatibility between employers and an organisation has become, and is becoming, more and more important. Employers want you to share similar characteristics as their organisation and they use psychometric tests to assess how you fit with the organisation, the ability to which the employer and employee will be able to meet each others needs. Organisations assess aspects such as general intelligence and personality traits through psychometric testing to provide an indication of person and organisation ‘fit’. It is advisable for you to develop job knowledge, and to practice psychometric tests to positively present your self as the ‘right’ person for the job. Practicing psychometric tests, among other things, increases your self-awareness, your understanding of your personality and values and can decreases [sic]your performance anxiety during psychometric testing. [Edited 3/16/17 18:00pm] | |
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i wrote a 10 or so page idea for a story about what goes really bad following the first human clone... "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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They did that in a movie, don't remember the name at the moment, I'm thinking it had Arnold in it, but not sure. | |
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Well, that's a bitch for people who hid "pre-existing conditions" before and then it didn't matter...and now they can't take it back. Ridiculous. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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But what happens to those whose information was "outed" when prejudice against pre-existing conditions was outlawed? Even if they don't have those "conditions" currently? Think about that one. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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it's a brave new world scary too | |
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Too brave for me... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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agree. although, the question of does that lump of meat feel pain? experience life in any way? would arise. still, better that than killing animals the way we do | |
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