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| | Human genetic engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The huge potential of genetic engineering to cure medical conditions opens the question of exactly what such a condition is. Many people, known as immortalists (ie the methuselah foundation) see ageing and death as medical conditions and engineering problems to be solved. | | | Affecting the germline means that not only do you, or whoever the genetic engineering was done to, have the changes, but all children conceived after the engineering, and so on, as well. | | | The metaphysical (or "spiritual") implications of genetically engineered humans are vast in scope; e.g., were individual personality shown to be exclusively the result of genetic information acted upon by the environment, the concepts of the human soul and free will could be proven specious. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Engineering
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| | Genetic - definition of Genetic in Encyclopedia |
| | Ecological genetics again builds upon the basic principles of population genetics but is more explicitly focused on ecological issues. | | | Humans began applying knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. | | | The foundational discipline is population genetics which studies the distribution of and change in allele frequencies of genes under the influence of the four evolutionary forces: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and migration. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Genetic
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| | Human Genetics Alert - Human Genetic Engineering resources |
| | Genetic engineering of plants and animals gives us the power to dominate nature in a new and more powerful way than ever before, which is why it has caused so much concern in environmental movements. | | | Human genetic engineering overthrows that basic conception, degrading human subjects into objects, to be designed according parents' whim. | | | People do have the right to have children if they are biologically capable, but they do not have any 'right' to use cloning, or genetic engineering. |
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http://www.hgalert.org/topics/hge/faq.htm
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| | Embracing Change with All Four Arms |
| | Another concern expressed by many critics of genetic technology is the dire consequences of the re-emergence of fascist, racist and authoritarian regimes, and their use of genengineering to produce compliant, genetically uniform subjects. | | | Genetics and Human Behavior II: Philosophical and Ethical Issues. | | | With or without genetic design products we are moving to a new phase of technological assessment of medical products balancing the demands for demonstrated efficacy and safety with demands for rapid release of useful therapies, and the individual freedom to control one's body. |
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http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/Genetech.html
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| | sciforums.com - Human Genetic Engineering |
| | If genetic engineering is legal, then qualified scientist can work with it and study, but if its illegal, then some messed up fool scientist will research on his own, and makes who knows what. | | | As in the future I would like to study Genetic Engineering I dont like some restrictions slowing down science. | | | I would be quite happy to donate my life to a well thought out Genetic experiment that could benifit mankind on a higher level than commercialism. |
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http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=23331
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| | Human Genetic Engineering - Probe Ministries |
| | Many of the questions surrounding the ethical use of genetic engineering practices are difficult to answer with a simple yes or no. This is one of them. | | | We need to emphasize, however, that we simply do not know what genetic factors determine popularly desired traits such as athletic ability, intelligence, appearance and personality. | | | If the genetic defect is detected in an early embryo, it's possible to add the gene at this stage, allowing the normal gene to be present in all tissues including reproductive tissues. |
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http://www.probe.org/content/view/709/67
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| | The Politics of Genetically Engineered Humans, by Richard Hayes |
| | Advocacy of germline engineering and the new "techno-eugenics" (i.e., technologically enabled human genetic manipulation and selection) is an integral element of a newly emerging socio-political ideology. | | | The other application of genetic engineering changes the genes in eggs, sperm, or very early embryos. | | | Advocates of germline engineering were further encouraged by the social, cultural and political conditions of the late 1990's, a period characterized by technological enthusiasm, distrust of government regulation, the spread of consumerist/competitive/libertarian values, and the perceived weakening ability of national governments to enforce laws and treaties, as a result of globalization. |
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http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/PoGEH.html
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| | ScienceDaily: Revising Humans: U.S. Constitution Provides Framework For Debate On Genetic Engineering Of Human Beings |
| | "Genetic engineering of humans raises questions about general welfare, procreative liberty, the advancement of science and the useful arts, and when it's for our benefit and when it's no longer a benefit because it violates other values we hold dear," Berry explained. | | | Some people will argue that genetic engineering falls within the realm of protected reproductive liberties, while others will claim that future children have the right to not be subjected to the risks of genetic engineering procedures gone wrong, or be subject to parental control over their features. | | | Though genetic engineering of human beings may seem the stuff of science fiction, researchers have already created human artificial chromosomes to produce transgenic animals and to administer gene therapy to living humans. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223145533.htm
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| | Genetic Engineering - Human Cloning |
| | The genetic coding has reproduced, and a new person who is an identical twin is now in existence. | | | Genesis II--underground genetics laboratories that are connected by tube shuttles. | | | The incredible storage capability of the human brain which weighs on the average 3.25 lbs in human males and 2.9 lbs in human females is incredible. |
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http://nwo-warning.tripod.com/genetic-experimentation1.html
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| | Future Human Evolution - Genetic Engineering News |
| | As many as 40 of 374 genes showed alteration in genetic activity that could be related to changes in DNA sequence called SNPs. | | | TWO antibodies that enabled the severed spinal nerves of rats to be regenerated are to be tested in humans. | | | There has been a lack of communication between the NSC and the nation's research institutes, and there remains a lack of awareness among research institutes of the gravity of the issues involved. |
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http://www.human-evolution.org/newsgenetic.php
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| | Christian Century: Enhancing humanity? - human genetic engineering, ethical aspects |
| | In addition to pure scientific curiosity, there is the eagerness of parents and corporations to explore the promise of genetic engineering. | | | First, no one country, institution or ideology can be trusted to guide the use of genetic knowledge for "enhancing" the human future. | | | It was premised on the assumption that genetic science concerns the relations of a remote human past to a remote human future, and thus requires a long public dialogue. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_8_118/ai_72094696
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| | Pragmatism and Human Genetic Engineering: |
| | The second error prevalent in the literature is the belief that genetic engineering is uniquely problematic, requiring a new kind of ethics. | | | It is concluded that excessive optimism and pessimism about genetic engineering rests primarily on two errors. | | | To counter the received view, I detail numerous cases in the history of biology and philosophy in which humans have faced moral choices similar to those present in the new genetics. |
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http://www.dissertation.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581120206
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| | Human Genetic Engineering |
| | There are many arguments against human genetic engineering, including the established safety issues, the loss of identity and individuality, and human diversity. | | | Human genetic engineering is a hot topic in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government. | | | Human genetic engineering leads to man usurping God as the almighty creator and designer of life. |
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http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/human-genetic-engineering.htm
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| | Human Genetic Engineering |
| | Even if we as a community decide that certain types of genetic experiments shouldn't be done on humans, the | | | D: The genetic modification to humans to remove undesirable characteristics or to enhance desirable ones. | | | It will explode the popular notion that intellect and nature are environmental, it will force communities to address what humanity is, and what a human is. |
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http://bovination.com/cbs/humanGeneticEngineering.jsp
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| | Human Cloning and Genetic Engineering |
| | Genetic Manipulations are becoming common as a means of genetic engineering. | | | Genetic Manipulation, the current state of the art in genetic engineering. | | | Other Bio-technology, Human Cloning and Genetic Engineering Links. |
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http://www.biofact.com/cloning
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| | Human Genetics/Genetic Engineering Unit: |
| | This can be specifically applied to the topic of human genetics and genetic engineering when students have researched for themselves and then share their ideas with the rest of the class community. | | | Genetic engineering is a field with far reaching implications. | | | Common attributes for all examples: all are examples of advantages or risks of the new technology of genetic engineering. |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/sterners/sampleunitplan.htm
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| | Benefits of Human Genetic Engineering |
| | The most promising benefit of human genetic engineering is gene therapy. | | | One possible future benefit of human genetic engineering is that, with gene therapy, a fetus w/ a genetic defect could be treated and even cured before it is born. | | | The hope is that soon, through genetic engineering, a cure can be found for these diseases by either inserting a corrected gene, modifying the defective gene, or even performing genetic surgery. |
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http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/benefits-of-human-genetic-engineering-faq.htm
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| | Current Events: Weird Science - human genetic engineering |
| | Some groups argue that the human embryo is a human life and should not be tampered with. | | | Rael said he believes people's fear of cloning humans will change after the first human clone is born. | | | Many scientists say that the same scientific procedures used to create Dolly and other animals could eventually be used to clone humans, but not until the techniques are perfected. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_24_100/ai_73623333
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| | Genetic Engineering Human - Engineer BR |
| | Students discover ethical issues and concepts surrounding the practice of genetic engineering in reproductive medicine. | | | … Human genetic engineering means changing the genes in a living human cell … HUMAN GENETIC ENGINEERING: A CRITICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN TWO APPLICATIONS … | | | Thanks to cloning technology, human genetic engineering may now be possible. |
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http://engineer.br.com/genetic-engineering-human.html
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| | Human Genetic Engineering: Appendix, Resources |
| | ISE is the Organizational sponsor for the Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering network (neRAGE), a grassroots network of biotechnology activists and organizations | | | Lee Silver, Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family, Bard, 1998; originally published as Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World, Avon, 1997 | | | daily, weekly or monthly; a terrific resource from GM Watch, which evolved from the Norfolk Genetic Information Network (NGIN), a news and research service founded in Norfolk, UK in the spring of 1998. |
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http://www.wordsontheweb.com/HGE/HGE13.html
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| | Human Genetic Engineering Websites & Email Newsletters |
| | Highly recommended free summary of developments, from a perspective opposing human germline engineering and cloning and supporting accountable social control of other genetic and reproductive technologies, approximately once a month; California-based but includes news from all over. | | | also has similar sections on Cloning, Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Research, and Genetically Modified Food, among others, and they are fairly well cross-linked. | | | Home of a Report widely described as critical of germline engineering but in fact supportive of it, if regulated; it appears to be an attempt to pre-empt criticism. |
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| | Human Genetic Disorder |
| | Genetic disorders (Homelander, Human, Zerpicker or whatever) may be prevented or treated, but they cannot be cured in the... | | | The human genetic disorder, ataxia telangiectasia (AT), is characterized by high cancer risk, chromosomal instability, and extreme sensitivity to ionizing radiation. | | | S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase deficiency in a human: a genetic disorder of methionine metabolism. |
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http://www.geneticsinfo.com/humangeneticdisorder
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| | Reason |
| | So skeptics of genetic engineering argue that such a vast array of complicated interactions may well preclude safe and effective engineering in human beings for such multifactorial genetic illnesses as heart disease and cancer, and for beneficial traits like high intelligence. | | | However, many respected scientists believe that safe human genetic engineering may never be practical, since most human traits—both desirable and deleterious—are the result of the actions of multiple genes. | | | Human genetic engineering is still a long way off, but as British chemist Michael Faraday once declared, "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature." |
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http://www.reason.com/rb/rb070903.shtml
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| | Debate 2000: GENETIC ENGINEERING |
| | Many other religions and faiths believe it is moral to use genetic engineering in order to prevent diseases and illnesses before a child is born to improve the quality of that life. | | | Human dignity is every individual's right to be respected and worth, and human genetic engineering can violate that right. | | | Arguments in favor of human genetic engineering are that life is precious, and therefore it is moral to modify human genetic material for the purpose of saving the lives of humans. |
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http://www.fatherryan.org/frhsonline/debates/day1.htm
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| | Human Genetics Alert - Technologies which may contribute to human genetic engineering and eugenics |
| | However, we are opposed to some developments, such as genetic discrimination, cloning and inheritable ('germ line') genetic engineering of human beings. | | | Human Genetics Alert - Technologies which may contribute to human genetic engineering and eugenics | | | However, the human genetics revolution also raises profound social and ethical problems, including a possible resurgence of eugenics. |
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| | Results of Biosafety Query |
| | The planned German law governing genetic engineering is based on the assumption that the use of genetic engineering may produce risks to human beings and their environment, but that, on the other hand, genetic engineering also opens up possibilities to protect human health and overcome environmental problems. | | | The subject is discussed under headings including: objects of legal protection, risks related to genetic engineering, exclusion of liability in cases of force majeure, the necessity to alleviate the burdens of proof, models of alleviation of the burden of proof, information model, extent of liability, provisions for cover and concurrence of claims. | | | Genetic transformation and regeneration techniques for cassava, millet and sorghum are key targets. |
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http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/~bsafesrv/db/query_biosafety.php
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| | Genetic Engineering Issues |
| | For example, if education were truly holistic in this sense, scientific inquiry and implementation of powerful technologies such as genetic engineering would naturally and spontaneously avoid creating negative side-effects, since evolution in nature has a holistic, integrated direction, and this is the foundation of a fully realized awareness. | | | Genetic engineering is a very powerful technology, and a significant section of the scientific community believes that governments and research institutions should require, as a fail-safe measure, absolute safety first, in the introduction of this new technology. | | | Genetic engineering is being hyped as the magic solution to these past grievous blunders, without any concern that the damaging effects might be even greater, and simply make a disastrous situation more hopeless. |
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http://www.chula.ac.th/college/econ/genetic.html
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| | Genetic and metabolic engineering |
| | In contrast, the concept of inverse metabolic engineering is first to identify the desired phenotype, then to determine environmental or genetic conditions that confer this phenotype, and finally to alter the phenotype of the selected host by genetic manipulation ( Bailey et al., 1996, Delgado and Liao, 1997). | | | In essence, metabolic engineering is the application of engineering principles of design and analysis to the metabolic pathways in order to achieve a particular goal. | | | Metabolic engineering is referred to as the directed improvement of cellular properties through the modification of specific biochemical reactions or the introduction of new ones, with the use of recombinant DNA technology ( Stephanopoulos, 1999). |
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| | En-minding the Extended Body: Enactive engagement in conceptual shapeshifting and deep ecology |
| | This is to be contrasted with the many manipulative speculations currently associated by behavioural scientists with memetic engineering -- where the focus is on imposing such memetic modification on others, typically without their consent, as with genetic engineering. | | | It is however possible to hypothesize the existence of memetic engineering processes, in which people voluntarily engage, that might indeed improve the quality of their sense of self, the world, and their healthy integration (see Enhancing the quality of knowing: through integration of East-West metaphors. | | | Whereas the significant difficulties of physical shapeshifting are recognized as being constrained by modification of genetic structure, the possibility of cognitive shapeshifting in the light of memetics was discussed in an earlier paper (Being Other Wise: Clues to the dynamics of a meaningfully sustainable lifestyle, 1998). |
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