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The path towards ‘edited’ designer babies.
NEW GENE-EDITING STARTUP
A Silicon Valley start-up backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is pursuing research that some fear could lead to the birth of a genetically engineered baby — a step that’s illegal under law and banned in most countries.
The company, Preventive, says its goal is to end hereditary disease by editing human embryos before birth – a claim that has ignited fierce debate over safety, ethics and the ideology of ‘designer children’, according to reports.
The group, founded earlier this year by gene-editing scientist Lucas Harrington, has raised $30 million and set up headquarters in San Francisco, where it is conducting research on modifying embryos to ‘prevent hereditary disease’.
The start-up says its mission is to prove that the technology “can be made safe and transparent” before any attempt to create a baby is made.
Altman’s husband, Oliver Mulherin, said he led the investment from their end – calling it “an effort to help families avoid genetic illness”.
Armstrong, who has publicly promoted embryo editing, posted that he was “excited” to back Preventive and argued “it is far easier to correct a genetic defect in an embryo than to treat disease later in life”.
At present, federal U.S law prohibits the Food and Drug Administration from considering applications for human trials involving genetically edited embryos used to start pregnancies.
Harrington, who earned his doctorate under CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, denied that Preventive is preparing to implant an edited embryo or working with a couple to do so.
He said the company’s focus is “preclinical research” on whether editing embryos “can be done safely” – like anyone in their right mind would even want to attempt such a project.
“We are not trying to rush things,” Harrington told reporters this week.
“We are committed to transparency in our research and will publish our findings, whether positive or negative.”
To this end, people familiar with Preventive and their operations have revealed the company is currently exploring foreign jurisdictions – including the United Arab Emirates or China – where embryo editing might be permitted.
When confronted on this, Harrington said work outside the U.S was being considered only because of regulatory restrictions, not to evade oversight.
Sure, we believe you, pal.
The company is currently recruiting advisers from reproductive medicine and genetics, with their website describing it as a “public-benefit corporation”.
We are entering an era where all moral limits and legal restrictions are being thrown out the window for the ‘betterment of science’ – and the systematic destruction of the human race.
Just as it was planned all along.
BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER
This new venture arrives as Silicon Valley money flows into reproductive genetics.
The company’s charter defines their purpose as “the responsible advancement of genome editing technologies applied before birth to benefit humanity.”
But will it really? Or is this all part of a bigger picture?
Before we answer that question, it is important to note that this isn’t the first time gene-editing – specifically relating to babies and embryos – has been formally explored.
The effort echoes the 2018 scandal in which Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the world’s first gene-edited babies, twins whose embryos had been altered to resist HIV.
He served three years in prison for illegal medical practices. Scientists say it remains unclear how the edits affected the children, who have not been publicly identified.
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Manhattan Genomics, co-founded by biotech entrepreneur Cathy Tie, and California-based Bootstrap Bio are also exploring embryo editing. Both have drawn scrutiny from bioethicists and regulators for discussing potential trials outside the U.S.
Each time a start-up like this appears, controversy surrounds it – and rightfully so.
Critics warn that commercial embryo editing risks crossing into eugenics.
“They are either lying, delusional, or both,” Fyodor Urnov, a director at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, told reporters.
“These people armed with very poorly deployed sacks of cash are working on ‘baby improvement’.”
Supporters insist the goal is medical, not cosmetic – and would target devastating monogenic disorders such as cystic fibrosis or sickle cell disease, in which parents who both carry the same gene mutation have no chance of conceiving a healthy child through IVF.
But for anyone who followed TOTT News over the years, you know this is a lie.
This is the Epsilon Agenda in full swing to bring about a Brave New World Order – a calculated agenda that has been in motion for decades now.
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In the future, just like in Brave New World, the post-human slave classes will select from pre-packaged synthetic embryos, designed on a conveyor belt and tailored specifically to you.
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The ultimate vision is for the promise of ‘superhuman’ abilities to be reserved for the ‘chosen class’, while the masses merge with technology designed for a constant state of surveillance and control – the Huxleyan dream coming to life.
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Like in Brave New World, I hope that we ‘savages’ get to live out our own lives outside of this system, but nobody can deny this is indeed coming for the majority of humans very soon.
We are at the Final Revolution phase, and afterwards, our species will never look the same.
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