American scientists have found a tool used to modify a human embryo called CRISPR, the main function of this tool is to transform a defective human embryo into a normal embryo
Defective embryos have an embryonic meaning / genes that inherit a hereditary disease, so this tool is used to replace embryos containing hereditary diseases with other healthy embryos that are certainly obtained from a healthy sperm / womb donor
But with the modification or editing of an embryo raises big questions, such as, if some defective embryos are replaced with other healthy embryos, it is likely that the child has other characteristics and attributes from both parents and this becomes an ethical problem Where the genes of both parents are replaced by genes or other people's embryos which certainly causes the difference between the child's resemblance to the parent.
There have been several attempts by chinese and union scientists who failed and one of the successful parties to embryo modification is MIT, where they claim to have successfully completed the embryo / genes of a healthy human without any congenital disease, theoretically they express It is very important to modify the genes so that their offspring in the future will not have any genetic disorders and diseases, but the statement also raises another question, if both parents carry a copy of a defective embryonic gene then this will not be effective
If reviewed again from where we know there is a sperm donor or a healthy ovary if the genes inherit allergic attributes to something and cause other non-genetic diseases but allergic diseases, scientists should look for ways so that both parents do not reduce their genetic disease to children Rather than changing their embryos.
Can this be legal? The answer is "Yes" but all the testing and research should be personally funded from the founders of the research because 40 countries in the world make international treaties on the Prohibition of Human Embryo editing and some countries that do not join the agreement are China and America.
But you need to know, a statement from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy has made a statement that it will allow genetic editing only for the prevention of very dangerous rare diseases or diseases that do not have any antidote, I think there will be people who spread rare diseases and Dangerous only to permit and seek profit from the human embryo modification project.
Whatever happens, the editing of the human embryo should not be done, if the editing or modification of humans is the same as "giving birth to a child of 3 or 4 human" which is certainly not ethical in our eyes.
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