From Sci.anthropology: ****************************************** Forum: sci.anthropology Subject: Re: Genius Genes. Date: 01/23/2001 Author: Robert Clark <rgclark@my-deja.com> In article <94g6fa$mil$1@news.netmar.com>, rushtown@aol.com wrote: > In article <8mrspr$pq9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Clark <rgclark@my- deja.com> > writes: > > > > > >Genius of genes > >Researchers say they are close to identifying the genes for > >intelligence, > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_850000/850358.stm > > > > > > And science fiction becomes science fact ... > > > > > >Forum: sci.astro > >Subject: Will the next stage of human evolution be self-created? > >Date: 10/21/1999 > >Author: Robert Clark <rgclark@my-deja.com> > >http://x67.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=538808689 > > > > "But, according to Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Bio-tech Century, the greatest threat comes from prospective parents rather than tyrannical or misguided governments." "Every parent wants the best for their child," said Rifkin. "In the future, the parent could become an architect and each child the ultimate shopping experience. "In the next 10 or 20 years we could have eugenics with a smiling face. We will no longer require the lower classes to have fewer babies; we will just have them have better babies as we learn to do gene therapy." Genius of genes http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_850000/850358.stm "The technique, known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, allows doctors to select a healthy embryo to implant in the womb of the mother. "Inherited diseases such as haemophilia and cystic fibrosis can be screened out before the embryos are placed in the womb." Science screens out defective genes http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1027000/1027076.stm "The sick girl at the centre of a storm after her brother was genetically selected to help her is recovering after treatment. Molly Nash, 6, who suffers from a rare blood and immune system disease, was given a bone marrow transplant with cells taken from her newborn brother Adam's umbilical cord." "And so far, she appears to be responding well to the therapy. "An ethical debate erupted after it was revealed that her parents, from Colorado, US, had used genetic pre-selection techniques to both ensure that her rare illness was not passed to any new child, and that the baby could be used as a source of stem cells to form her treatment." Genetics storm girl 'responding well' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_979000/979884.stm The Baby Makers - 19th November (video) http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/programmes/superhuman.shtml Science fiction? It's already here. -- _____________________________________________ "The statement: 'Sig file on vacation' IS a sig file." - Bob Clark _____________________________________________ ********************************************
