Wednesday, March 13, 2019

I made a baby with two heads

An international group of researchers, including some inventors of the popular gene-editing tool Crispr, called for a world-wide moratorium on editing DNA in human sperm, eggs and embryos to prevent births of genetically modified babies.
WSJ
I made a baby with two heads by editing her genes;
she can go on double dates when she is in her teens.
I made another infant with long pointy ears like Spock;
there's lots of money to be made will all that Star Trek schlock.
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Cooking up a monster in the lab ain't out of line;
it's merely being retro, like that good old Frankenstein.
Just think if babies filled their diapers up with bars of gold;
mothers would drive Cadillacs and never want to scold.
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Making babies better with a snip and then a splice
is just as safe as winning with a pair of loaded dice.
Perhaps I'll tinker with a tyke to give it sky blue hair,
then create one with strong bones and use him as a chair . . . 
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The march of science must go on; to stop would be a crime.
Just think of infant popsicles that taste of lemon lime.
Technology will reign supreme, and barely have we scratched
the possibility that all our newborns will be hatched!

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