July 23, 2014 AUTHOR: zachary CATEGORIES: Journal

Forget GMO’s, Genetically Engineered Humans are Here

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The first strains of Genetic Engineering have taken hold.

In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named Maureen Ott became pregnant. Ott had been trying for almost seven years to conceive a child through in vitro fertilization. Unwilling to give up, she submitted to an experimental procedure in which doctors extracted her eggs, slid a needle through their shiny coat and injected not only her husband’s sperm but also a small amount of cytoplasm from another woman’s egg…

Hat tip to @SilkyD67 from NYTIMES.com via TheVerge.com

 

Photograph from the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

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