30 Gene-Modified children have been in the United States after infertile women received a donor-gene to get pregnant, thereby giving the child three parents. The children were conceived and born after a new, experimental treatment. They were not supposed to carry the new gene. The parents were supposed to be the lone… parents. But something went wrong, BBC reports. Scientists do not believe this will influence the children's lives later on, but they are not sure. It's unclear whether or not the process is dangerous to health and development.
WEEK 20 May 7th to 13th 2001
US: 30 KNOWN GM CHILDREN BORN SO FAR
One scientist who prefer to be anonymous, is stating that what was changed does not have a known function.
CITY CHILDREN MORE ILL
City children are more ill than others growing up in more natural surroundings. They have a decisive bigger change of developing allergies, asthma and other environmental diseases a German report clearly shows. Child-physician Erika Von Mutius has over several years treated and collected data on 800 children in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. She found that children living closer to nature are developing a considerably tougher immune defense system and that city children have 50 percent higher risk of developing asthma.
Entered 2001-05-07