What is your opinion about human mutation??

Question

Now that Genetically Modified Organisms are now a rage in the market, Is it possible for scientists to Mutate humans for example give someone a characteristic of the animal dog, which gives a human elevated sense of smell, like those mutants of Xmen

Answer 1

Advancements with stem cell technology might help to answer your question, but human stem cell research has been outlawed for ethical reasons.

The whole debate about "engineering" better humans has at least been around since Plato suggested that human breeding be controlled by governments. And "eugenics" (in short, selective breeding of people) has been a topic of hot debate since about 1890. See here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

It wouldn't be much of an effort to breed people differently so that we could have specialized strong men with fast reflexes who could be enlisted as warriors, say, or a specific breed of brainiacs to do all of our research. We could certainly enhance any breeding with "genetic engineering". The big question is an ethical one. Should we allow ourselves to do this?

See here for a discussion on "the immorality of eugenics".
http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/1299/new_tech/new_tech3.html

Answer 2

not too much as Xmen but there will be genetic modified human in the future

Answer 3

Human mutation experiments are not ethical. Imagine being wrong on an experiment and a child is born deformed or retarded.

Answer 4

You can modify human genes, but adding one gene or a set of genes does nothing to an already born person, because those genes would have to go to every single cell in the body, so today? impossible.

You could do it on a sperm cell, or an egg and after fecundation you'll have to wait if those genes EXPRESS THEMSELVES i f they do it or are repressed, or if they do it, how long they do it.

My opinion? not yet!.

Answer 5

first please excuse me if I misspell some words but I'm using all 6 of my arms to type this , but everything changes some for the good and some for the bad , and if I get a characteristic from a dog I hope it's not the one where I sniff butts

Answer 6

It's possible, in teory, but only if you make in vitro fertilization and add the characters you want, and also there's a lot of the gemone we don't know about, so until they solve that mistery it won't be possible.

Answer 7

It will be a very very long time before any changes in human's dna can be done perfectly.

Answer 8

its a very dangerious science

Answer 9

EVIL!!!!!!!!!! we are already changing on our own we dont need to add wings!