American startup funded by billionaires from Silicon Valley is secretly working on an embryo editing task that can lead to the birth of a “genetically modified child”, free from hereditary diseases and higher intelligence, reports the “Wall Street Journal”.
Although gene editing technology is already being utilized for postnatal treatment, the anticipation of gene editing in embryos to make offspring remains prohibited in the US and many another countries.
According to a study published on Saturday, a preventive startup based in San Francisco “She quietly prepares something that could be considered biological pioneering”.
Founded early this year by a gene editing scientist Lucas Harrington, the startup is reportedly supported by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong.
Preventive claims that his mark is “to destruct hereditary diseases by editing human embryos before birth”, which sparked a fierce debate on ethics, safety and spectrum of children with genetic modification.
According to the correspondence he read "Wall Street Journal", the company is looking for locations where editing embryos would be legal to conduct research.
After "Wall Street Journal" He turned to Preventive, who had been hiding her plans for six months, she announced raising $30 million for investigation into embryo editing.
Armstrong, a billionaire in the cryptocurrency marketplace behind Coinbase, reportedly told his colleagues that gene editing could reduce the susceptibility of children to disease, and erstwhile considered secretly exposing a healthy, genetically modified kid to encourage public opinion to accept this practice, reports "Wall Street Journal".
Critics say specified actions endanger to fall into eugenics.
Fyodor Urnow, manager of the Institute of Innovative Genomics at the University of California, Berkeley, said that people "armed with very badly distributed bags of money" in fact, they are aiming to "improve the quality of children's lives".
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627553-tech-titans-bid-create-baby/
