Gene: CCR5Δ32, an obvious one relating to HIV resistance with some minimal downsides known.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601235/chinese-researchers-experiment-with-making-hiv-proof-embryos/
Chinese fertility doctors have tried to make HIV-proof human embryos, but the experiments ended in a bust. The new report is the second time researchers in China revealed that they had a go at making genetically modified human embryos.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27052831
Introducing precise genetic modifications into human 3PN embryos by CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing.
By co-injecting Cas9 mRNA, gRNAs, and donor DNA, we successfully introduced the naturally occurring CCR5Δ32 allele into early human 3PN embryos. In the embryos containing the engineered CCR5Δ32 allele, however, the other alleles at the same locus could not be fully controlled because they either remained wild type or contained indel mutations.
CONCLUSIONS:
This work has implications for the development of therapeutic treatments of genetic disorders, and it demonstrates that significant technical issues remain to be addressed. We advocate preventing any application of genome editing on the human germline until after a rigorous and thorough evaluation and discussion are undertaken by the global research and ethics communities.
Korea can make clones, they just don't because ethics
>>8000282
niggas need to put some hip genes in this bitch good lord
>>8000282
>Chinese fertility doctors have tried to make HIV-proof human embryos
what a useless genetic modification...
>>8000454
>Korea can make clones, they just don't because they aready arr rook the same
fixed
>>8000282
Good for them.
I'm glad the entire world isn't buying into the bullshit Western "ethics" that sanctimonious retards in the US believe should be universal. This stuff needs to be studied intensely, and experimented on routinely.
I hope that China never becomes America's cuck, the way South Korea has.
>>8000282
who is this jizz whiz?
>>8000454
>because cucked
>>8000454
Or because they already have too many children.
t. Transnational Adoptions
>>8000282
So why did they study editing against these two diseases? After all Chinese leaders have called for editing out mental illnesses. AIDS is supposedly more a problem outside China than inside and less of a problem than the mental health issues.
>>8001638
Obviously because we have identified this single gene relating to AIDS while obedience, cooperativeness and things like that are much more complex.
>>8001638
>AIDS is supposedly more a problem outside China
Well.... apparently not
>>8000664
>Transnational Adoptions
Korea and China are not the same
>>8001658
No doubt they want to breed in obedience. Meanwhile there are many other low hanging fruits where the genetic sequences are known. There must be more to this and somehow tie in with the comments on WND.
>>8002097
>Well.... apparently not
I thought it would be hard to beat Africa. Especially Uganda.
One of the massive pitfalls of the CRISPR/Cas9 system is that the recognition sequence for Cas is not that specific. However, this can probably be worked out by directed protein evolution. This technique is relatively new however. Also, word on the street is it's gonna win the Nobel Prize this year.
>>8000463
The research could culminate in HIV immunity, which could then help in moving towards vastly improved viral resistance.
>>8002916
What, CRISPR or specifically techniques to increase target sequence length and specificity?
