china made AIDS babies 10 years ago and the man responsible got into jail, in Chinatoday: USA has made design babies, isnt it illegalhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientist-edits-human-embryo-genes-but-questions-remain/ar-AA24WE3o"A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week," reports the Wall Street Journal.Dieter Edguy, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nathan Tryffel of Nucleus Genomics, say the technology could help fix disease-causing mutations in embryos, especially eliminate Down's syndrome before embryo has developed far (and wrongly).In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jianku said he tweaked DNA in human embryos and was imprisoned for the work, his creation was twins who became immune to AIDS (they still live) but in the process their immune system ignores fungus which is a bad thing if a fungus ever invades your body."I am generally supportive of the concept of embryo editing to prevent genetic disease," said Dr. Paula Amato, a fertility expert at Oregon Health & Science University. Base editing has been used in human embryos before, according to peer-reviewed studies but its a legal battle and certain methods are allowed while others are not. >Using embryo editing to create babies is illegal in the U.S. While embryos are legal for research they must be eliminated before they are fully grown and become sentient. A bunch of living cells is not yet a human being though.Scientists have long worried that it is a slippery slope and that the technology could ultimately be used to promote eugenics.Nucleus Genomics Chief Executive Kian Sadeghi said his company sells a polygenic embryo-screening product, which screens prospective parents' embryos and predicts IQ and eye color. They cant predict if a baby becomes genius or not but they know if its going to have sub-100 IQ and eye color will be accurate too as well as hair.
