Twins born with modified DNA in China: towards Stephen Hawking's prophecy?
Stephen Hawking: super humans will survive
In an extract published by the «Sunday Times» of the posthumous book by Stephen Hawking “My answers to the big questions” – Brief Answer to the Big Question, the British physicist raises the alarm about dangers which could jeopardize the survival of mankind, including theArtificial intelligence, il global warming, a nuclear war or one collision Of asteroids.
Secondo Hawking, within a thousand years life on Earth will be made impossible: «For then, but, our ingenious race will have found a way to overcome Earth's grim limits and survive the disaster". The only ones to survive could be the human beings who will have "reprogrammed" their genome, having therefore become "supermen" prepared to overcome the catastrophe.
These superhumans who have carried out genetic editing, they will have developed better resistance to diseases, radiation and hostile environmental factors. The alarm about the future of humanity thus becomes an invitation to resort to genetic programming:
«We don't have time to wait for Darwinian evolution makes us smarter and better by nature […] Only then can we stay alive long enough to succeed, one day, to colonize other solar systems" .
Caste of superhumans and the CRISPR genetic correction technique
When this caste of superhumans will arise, predice Hawking, there will be political unrest with other human beings, unable to "keep up" without resorting to Crispr (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, that is, it is a technique of correcting one or more genes in any cell): these people will be left aside and die. Superhumans, however, will perhaps be able to abandon planet Earth and find safety on other planets where other forms of intelligent life may be found.. In short, a disturbing scenario worthy of a science fiction film.
Yet it is not science fiction.
China: twins born with D.N.A. modified resistant to HIV
Yesterday's news was that they were born in China twins with modified DNA precisely with the Crispr technique, so as to make their DNA resistant to the HIV virus The conditional is a must as there is still no independent confirmation of the research.
An American scientist, He Jiankui di Shenzen, claims to have taken part in the work in China, where he used a Genome-editing technique banned in the United States (DNA changes risk damaging other genes).
The scientist allegedly changed the embryos of seven couples during fertility treatment, with a couple who then ended their pregnancy. The experiment is described in a document from the Southern University of Science and Technology in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, and it was made known by the journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (With), Technology Review.
The dark side of progress
The news was released by the Associated Press, but the agency itself explains that there are still doubts about the experiment, the results of which have not yet been published in a scientific journal.
Cloning, gene editing, chimeras, sperm in test tube, artificial wombs, biohacking and much more, they escaped from dystopias to become real. The common man is simply not aware of it because he is distracted by other news. We are citizens of a gray area where reality and fiction merge, in which Promethean delusions are rewriting our society.
Enthusiasm and uncritical exaltation in progress and technology are overshadowing the hidden side of these researches: we are sure that everything that is scientifically and technologically possible (or that it will be in the future) must be sought and applied at all costs?
SOURCE: https://unoeditori.com/in-cina-nate-gemelle-con-d-n-a-modificato-verso-la-profezia-di-stephen-hawking/
