X-People

A World scandal – genetically modified people live on our planet! This was stated by the Chinese biochemist He Jiankui. Violating the laws of his country, he personally repeatedly edited the human genome at the embryo stage. As a result, at least two girls with immunity from HIV were born.

Immediately, two dozen well-known and respected scientists appealed to the governments of all the states of the Earth to prohibit clinical experiments to change the human genetic code for the next five years. Among the signatories are those who are famous in this industry. The global moratorium, in their opinion, is necessary to study the possible consequences of such an invasion of DNA. After all, the technologies already developed do not guarantee obtaining the exact results for which they are used. For example, a gene edited by Professor He Jiankui is responsible, among other things, for a person’s intellectual abilities. So we cannot be 100% sure that the artificially stimulated Chinese twins will now develop like ordinary children. Rather, on the contrary, similar experiments with mice produced the results described in the masterpieces of world science fiction: the rodents who had had this gene knocked out showed a better learning ability than their ‘ordinary’ kindreds.

In the framework of the Israeli project, Tabasco, scientists analyzed the statistics of insulators with a natural mutation in the DNA. The same that He Jiankui recreated artificially. Approximately one year after the stroke, they overtook ordinary patients in terms of speech function, attention, and memory.

Today, genetic experiments on human embryos are prohibited or strictly limited and controlled by the authorities in most countries. And in any case, scientific research does not imply the emergence of a generation of GM people and, thus, the division of humanity into two subspecies. Nevertheless, we have to grant it to Professor He Jiankui that he has pulled off a grand trick and forever inscribed his name in the history of world science.