Scientists from the United States have formulated a way to produce healthier and more quality livestock for the people in the near future, with the gene-editing process's help. Are you willing to eat gene-edited meat?
Does eating gene-edited livestock safer for humans?
If there's one thing that scientists debate all the time, it's the process of gene-editing. Many scientists do not like the concept of this process since it raises questions about ethics.
Tech Times reported, in 2018, a Chinese scientist made the world's first gene-edited twin babies. The babies named Lulu and Nana reportedly had their specific genes removed even before they were born.
Chinese scientist He Jiankui allegedly wiped off the specific gene called 'CCR5,' which enables humans to contract HIV. It also has its impact on stroke survivors, that once removed, the gene induces the patient's motor cells.
However, Alcino Silva, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, believes that this process could impact the babies' brains.
"The answer is likely yes, it did affect their brains," Alcino J. Silva, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose lab studied the CCR5 gene's role in memory and cognition, told MIT Technology Review. "The simplest interpretation is that those mutations will probably have an impact on cognitive function in the twins."
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Written by Jamie Pancho
