Scientists call it germline modification. We call it designer babies. Either way it entered a new stage recently when Chinese scientists were able to alter a human embryo by removing a potentially fatal blood disorder. What’s to be underlined is that the technique does not only alter the fact for that embryo but for all the human lives that would derive from it. So it is more than just an individual alteration, it tinkers with the process of evolution and alters the species. Some scientists are now asking, (more…)
March 2017
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Trump and The Press Corps
This article from the online version of the German publication Spiegel not only gives a non-US perspective, it offers observations which could be called a warning.
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Famine And Its Consequences
Some 20 million people from 4 countries, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Northern Nigeria are undergoing famine conditions. The UN and food aid organizations ‘s definition of famine is when more than 30% of children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition and the mortality rate is 2 or more death for each 10,000 people each day. The number of people is the highest since the founding of the UN in 1945 right after WWII. The UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Stephen O’Brien, describes that many will simply starve to death, or (more…)