Regulations

... better. Then again, maybe only the rich could afford such tampering. Tampering is coming. Whether it is some private company that has no rules or regulations, and can be bought at the right price to do anything, or the public funded research that wants to find cures so that everybody has a chance ...

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... reasons Christianity split from Judaism was because the Christian Church was not trying to force traditional Jewish laws (circumcision, dietary regulations, etc) on their Gentile converts. The Christian mentality of "Us vs the Heathens" wouldn't develop until centuries later, after ...

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... nothing new with regards to science fiction but I do wonder sometimes exactly how far genetic engineering has gone. There must be many rules and regulations that stop people creating mutants that the general public would just never know the truth; people would be guarded about what gets out into ...

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... could help them, but the intersection of the regulatory and economic forces will leave them suffering -- unless we muster the will to change the regulations or the economic landscape. See Hoffman's paper for a more complete discussion of this regulatory-economic trap.

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... The short answer to your question is that we cannot do genetic operations with humans due to regulations. However, there are some beginnings. The clinical trial using antisense oligos to redirect pre-mRNA splicing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

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