A U.S. biotech startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is reportedly developing embryo-editing technology that could pave the way for genetically modified children, raising alarm among scientists and ethicists.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco-based firm ‘Preventive’ has been quietly pursuing research to alter human embryos in hopes of producing babies free from hereditary illnesses—a practice currently banned in the US and much of the world.
Preventive, founded earlier this year by gene-editing researcher Lucas Harrington, claims its mission is to “end hereditary disease.”
However, the secrecy surrounding its work and its search for overseas locations with looser regulations have prompted strong criticism.
Bioethicists warn the venture risks reviving eugenics under a high-tech guise, while experts like UC Berkeley’s Fyodor Urnov have accused wealthy investors of trying to “buy their way into baby improvement.” Despite widespread condemnation, Preventive recently announced it had raised $30 million to continue exploring human embryo editing.
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Gay Jewish (White Supremacist) billionaires gonna make super babies, I bet the goy will be shut out of this tech.
Do not commit adultery – to alter
Kind after kind
The same main protagonists
Bad actors
Enemies of the White race
There’s already a huge problem with IVF born children and adults finding out they have literally hundreds od siblings with whom they could inadvertently hook up. The IVF process is like the illegal drugs trade, superficially ‘controlled and monitored’ but underneath lies a dark web full of people making money from sperm trading, quite unrestrictedly.
Somewhere along the line the concept of ‘making love’ and conceiving children just like nature and God designed us to do, has been displaced with commercial trading in body bits, just as though we were cars. We are not cars, neither do we aspire to being cars. Finally, Watson has karked it and the whole hubristic stance of knowing how we are put together right down to the molecular level can be consigned to a nightmarish history which hopefully Altman will also occupy.