

Artificial organ is able to nurture and mature human egg cells










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RE: I don't know how I feel
By rs1 on 9/15/2010 1:14:02 PM , Rating: 5
If you want to take that viewpoint, then pretty much all of modern medicine goes against natural selection. I mean, technically, if you cannot survive pneumonia/smallpox/strep/whatever else without medical intervention then your genes shouldn't be carried on. That's how populations developed immunity to infectious disease prior to modern medicine. The susceptible population dies off and you're left with only the people who are naturally immune, who then go on to rebuild a population that includes their natural immunity.

We have already used our technology to bypass a myriad of conditions which have historically been extremely effective at knocking people out of the gene pool, and in that sense this new invention is really no different than hundreds of other innovations that preceded it. Does it result in a "weaker" human gene pool from a strictly Darwinian perspective? Yes. But the idea that we should shun all such technologies is ludicrous at best. If we actually applied that philosophy consistently, the vast majority of the people here would have probably died in childhood to one malady or another that modern medicine just happens to have a cure/vaccine/treatment for.

RE: I don't know how I feel
By Spivonious on 9/16/2010 10:34:30 AM , Rating: 2
Being unable to conceive children from a genetic issue (not due to radiation/chemotherapy) is a pretty strong genetic flaw, and not anything like a slight increased resistance to a particular disease.


RE: I don't know how I feel


Just some things to think about.

