Future IFBB Bodybuilding Division: "Gene-Doping-Class?"
Wow! Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos! Is this the beginning of genetic manipulation/dominance in the world? What does all of this mean? The article was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature
The team of scientists have safely repaired a gene mutation that causes a horrible heart defect in human embryos. This new breakthrough will spark a tremendous debate on the frontier of genetic engineering. This new breakthrough was done in a genetically-derived disease called hypertropic cardiomyopathy, which causes sudden death in genetically prone athletes. This new genetic modifying technology can be a major breakthrough in preventing genetically-derived diseases! One fear is that the FDA can regulate this procedure for disease prevention in the US, but we can't regulate it in other parts of the world such as: China, Russia, North Korea, or the Middle East. The fear is: "Designer Babies!" Can you imagine? Designing women with just blue eyes, or blond hair, or gene-manipulating and by further increasing the male population in China which is already male dominated! What about greater intelligence or athleticism? How about building the future genetic freaks of bodybuilding by inhibiting certain genes such as myostatin and other genes that control muscle growth?
Will the IFBB/NPC have a new division in bodybuilding in the future called the "Gene-Doping Class?" Now, of course, this study was done in a petri dish in a test-tube aka "in-vitro" and it was 75% successful. NO way will the FDA allow its use in human embryos until it's perfected 100% in-vitro. But this technology will not be approved for some time. However, nothing is stopping underground labs around the world, outside the US, from creating a whole new race of super-humans.
Fuel for thought?
Wow! Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos! Is this the beginning of genetic manipulation/dominance in the world? What does all of this mean? The article was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature
The team of scientists have safely repaired a gene mutation that causes a horrible heart defect in human embryos. This new breakthrough will spark a tremendous debate on the frontier of genetic engineering. This new breakthrough was done in a genetically-derived disease called hypertropic cardiomyopathy, which causes sudden death in genetically prone athletes. This new genetic modifying technology can be a major breakthrough in preventing genetically-derived diseases! One fear is that the FDA can regulate this procedure for disease prevention in the US, but we can't regulate it in other parts of the world such as: China, Russia, North Korea, or the Middle East. The fear is: "Designer Babies!" Can you imagine? Designing women with just blue eyes, or blond hair, or gene-manipulating and by further increasing the male population in China which is already male dominated! What about greater intelligence or athleticism? How about building the future genetic freaks of bodybuilding by inhibiting certain genes such as myostatin and other genes that control muscle growth?
Will the IFBB/NPC have a new division in bodybuilding in the future called the "Gene-Doping Class?" Now, of course, this study was done in a petri dish in a test-tube aka "in-vitro" and it was 75% successful. NO way will the FDA allow its use in human embryos until it's perfected 100% in-vitro. But this technology will not be approved for some time. However, nothing is stopping underground labs around the world, outside the US, from creating a whole new race of super-humans.
Fuel for thought?
