{"id":371567,"date":"2018-07-31T15:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/our-assembly-line-future\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:44:40","slug":"our-assembly-line-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/our-assembly-line-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Assembly-Line Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_104160\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/Master_Mix_with_Primers_form_PCR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source Alana Escoto | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Human civilization has taken an important turn with the publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/jul\/17\/genetically-modified-babies-given-go-ahead-by-uk-ethics-body\">a new report<\/a> by the Nuffield Council, the semi-official bioethics agency of the United Kingdom. The document, two years in preparation, gives the go-ahead to genetically engineer human beings at the embryonic stages of development. The report stated: \u201cThere is potential for heritable genome editing interventions to be used at some point in the future in assisted human reproduction, as a means for people to secure certain characteristics in their children.\u201d If history is a guide, the U.S. will not lag far behind the U.K. in following this dangerous path.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. pioneered human genetic engineering by approving, earlier this year, a technique to construct embryos using parts of the eggs of two different women, along with a man\u2019s sperm, to create \u201cthree-person embryos.\u201d Though deceptively promoted as \u201cmitochondrial transfer,\u201d the procedure really involves transferring around 20 thousand genes from a woman with impaired mitochondria into another woman\u2019s egg. The accurate \u201cthree-person\u201d designation was only widely used in the scientific literature after the procedure became legal. Similar misrepresentations of the technicalities are contained in the Nuffield recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Aldous Huxley\u2019s dystopian novel, <em>Brave New World,\u00a0<\/em>recounted the dire social consequences of purposefully fashioning humans with different biological endowments. His method of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/31\/our-assembly-line-future\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo source Alana Escoto | CC BY 2.0 Human civilization has taken an important turn with the publication of a new report by the Nuffield Council, the semi-official bioethics agency of the United Kingdom. The document, two years in preparation, gives the go-ahead to genetically engineer human beings at the embryonic stages of development. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}