Genetically modifying people has been a goal of scientists for years, as the movie “Gattaca” showed. The movie was released in 1997 and was based around changing human DNA before birth took place, proving that people had been thinking about changing the genetic structure of man for a period of time before 1997. Changing the genetics in a human before birth would be revolutionary, killing diseases before they appeared and extending life-span would be possible. The procedure would most likely cost a large sum of money though, as current cancer treatment costs an exorbitant amount of money. The progress of genetic technology has advanced incredibly, but testing of the new science, cost, and benefit are all things to still be considered on this
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The only way to do this though it to have an intact, hopefully frozen, specimen that still has uncontaminated tissue. Taking the DNA from within the creature and copying it exactly in another species that is similar, for example wooly mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo, would cause, potentially, that creature to be created. During March of 2016 a team of scientists, led by Harvard geneticist George Church, copied the DNA of a wooly mammoth into an elephant embryo. The elephant embryo hasn’t been put into an elephant for birth yet, it is still going through tests to make sure the egg isn’t defunct or that a letter was accidentally removed. The uses that CRISPR has don’t end at bringing the dead back to life, CRISPR has been recorded being able to clone animals. The science hasn’t been tested on humans yet, as a ban has been put on human cloning by the UN council and the Council of Europe. Before the clone ban, Dolly, a sheep, was cloned by scottish scientists. The cloning was a success and Dolly was a fully working sheep clone. The egg it was implanted into was stripped of it’s own DNA before the copy of the subjects DNA was taken and put into it. Once the DNA was inserted into the egg, the egg was then put into a surrogate mother for the birthing to take place. An identical twin to the subject was created in appearance and genetics. Dolly is the only recorded clone that has been made of a living creature up to this point, but there may have been more subjects that weren’t recorded for purposes of
The only way to do this though it to have an intact, hopefully frozen, specimen that still has uncontaminated tissue. Taking the DNA from within the creature and copying it exactly in another species that is similar, for example wooly mammoth DNA into an elephant embryo, would cause, potentially, that creature to be created. During March of 2016 a team of scientists, led by Harvard geneticist George Church, copied the DNA of a wooly mammoth into an elephant embryo. The elephant embryo hasn’t been put into an elephant for birth yet, it is still going through tests to make sure the egg isn’t defunct or that a letter was accidentally removed. The uses that CRISPR has don’t end at bringing the dead back to life, CRISPR has been recorded being able to clone animals. The science hasn’t been tested on humans yet, as a ban has been put on human cloning by the UN council and the Council of Europe. Before the clone ban, Dolly, a sheep, was cloned by scottish scientists. The cloning was a success and Dolly was a fully working sheep clone. The egg it was implanted into was stripped of it’s own DNA before the copy of the subjects DNA was taken and put into it. Once the DNA was inserted into the egg, the egg was then put into a surrogate mother for the birthing to take place. An identical twin to the subject was created in appearance and genetics. Dolly is the only recorded clone that has been made of a living creature up to this point, but there may have been more subjects that weren’t recorded for purposes of