US scientists 'correct' genes of human embryos
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The research involved eggs from 12 healthy female donors and sperm from a male volunteer carrying the MYBPC3 gene, which causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The disease causes an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, and can lead to sudden cardiac death. There is no way to prevent or cure it, and it affects one in 500 people worldwide.
Around the time the sperm was injected into the eggs, researchers snipped out the gene causing the disease. The result: As the embryo's cells began to divide and multiply, a huge number appeared to repair themselves by using the normal, non-mutated copy of the gene from the women's genetic material.
The research involved eggs from 12 healthy female donors and sperm from a male volunteer carrying the MYBPC3 gene, which causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The disease causes an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, and can lead to sudden cardiac death. There is no way to prevent or cure it, and it affects one in 500 people worldwide.
Around the time the sperm was injected into the eggs, researchers snipped out the gene causing the disease. The result: As the embryo's cells began to divide and multiply, a huge number appeared to repair themselves by using the normal, non-mutated copy of the gene from the women's genetic material.
Qn: Human need, rather than profit, should always be the main concern of scientific research. Discuss. (Cam. 2016)
posted by Dark Shadow | 1:12 PM
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