Ein neues Startup möchte menschliche Embryonen bearbeiten. Sieben Jahre nach der Entdeckung der ersten genmanipulierten Babys lässt das Biotech-Startup Manhattan Genomics die Idee wieder aufleben, menschliche Embryonen zu manipulieren, um krankheitsfreie Kinder zu schaffen.
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-edit-human-embryos-manhattan-genomics-cathy-tie/
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Here’s an article about the company that isn’t behind a paywall. [https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/11/14/biotech-barbie-manhattan-project-will-crispr-babies-escape-the-shadow-of-he-jiankui/](https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/11/14/biotech-barbie-manhattan-project-will-crispr-babies-escape-the-shadow-of-he-jiankui/)
I wanted to use the Wired link cause that headline would really grab people’s attention. So there’s a new startup called Manhattan Project based out of New York I believe, they simply wanna gene edit human embryos to get rid of horrible genetic diseases.
“We have a duty to patients with incurable, debilitating diseases,” says Cathy Tie the founder of Manhattan Project. “A majority of Americans are in support of this technology.”
Tie [notes] that methods used to edit genes have evolved considerably since He’s experiments. Newer techniques, such as [base editing](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03543-z) and another approach called [prime editing,](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01593-z) offer improved precision compared with conventional CRISPR–Cas9 editing.
Technology is getting more and more advanced all the time. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to face facts on this, designer babies are coming. Gene edited humans will probably be everywhere within 50 years. Eventually gene edited children will probably be totally accepted. Everyone’s gonna do it. You’ll still have people in the future who will have children the old fashioned way but in the end, most likely most people will choose to have gene edited children.
I mean we’re also gonna be colonizing Mars. We’ll have self aware AI. Androids are coming. Space colonization is coming. So the world is going to be a lot different 30 years from now. Change is coming. Change is the only constant in life. Drastic change is coming thanks to super advanced technology.
And don’t forget about the artificial womb. The artificial womb is very close as well, here, wanna see how close the artificial womb is? follow this link [https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/123qovc/scientists_can_now_grow_a_human_embryo_from_day_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/123qovc/scientists_can_now_grow_a_human_embryo_from_day_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
And there’s another technology that is going to revolutionize human reproduction as well in the near future. Right now scientists can take skin cells from a female mouse and convert them into iPSCs and then convert the iPSCs into viable eggs. From which they have made live healthy mice pups from. And within 10 or 15 years they should be able to do this with humans as well.
So in the near future if you’re a woman and you’re in your late 40s and you wanna have kids but your eggs are gone. Well I could take skin cells from your arm and convert them into iPSCs and then into viable eggs so you could have kids (who you were also genetically related to).
This technology is called in vitro gametogenesis.
„Creating a sperm or egg from any cell? Reproduction revolution on the horizon“ [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/27/1177191913/sperm-or-egg-in-lab-breakthrough-in-reproduction-designer-babies-ivg](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/27/1177191913/sperm-or-egg-in-lab-breakthrough-in-reproduction-designer-babies-ivg)
These guys didn’t see [Gattaca](https://youtu.be/NIIZ2P-fiyI?si=YAh1kZW70ot19qqg)
Good. _Not_ doing that is immoral.
Simple chain of thought: saving a baby from suffocation is moral.
Saving a baby from suffocation by operating on it’s lungs is moral.
Saving a baby from suffocation by operating on it’s lungs while it is still in the womb is moral.
Therefore, saving a baby from suffocation if the cause is genetic, by genetically engineering the faulty genes away, is moral.
I see the value in trying to fend off incurable diseases. potential for reproductive health is also very promising.
The thing that I hope people keep in mind is that natural selection is always still ongoing. Just because we make genetic changes doesn’t mean that nature is going to stop responding to those changes.
nature has viruses and bacteria in real time reacting to orders of magnitude more variables in the environment than humans can possibly calculate, 24/7 365.
Anything that you can cure through genetics is only going to be effectively cured in the populations that have those genetic changes made, and passed to offspring.
Populations that don’t have those genetic changes will serve as incubators and attack vectors for diseases to evolutionarily respond to those genetic changes.
Think about how polio was effectively eradicated in the United States through vaccination in the 1950s. But today it is starting to come back in populations that opt not to vaccinate. That disease now has a platform to evolve, and could in time make any vaccination we have less effective.
Genetic changes will have the same issues
Fuck it don’t stop there I want all that shit from bioshock
„Everyone’s gonna do it“ lol, with what giant pile of money? IVF is already out of financial reach for most Americans, and you think something like this is going to be equitably distributed while probably costing ten times as much?
You know what is super convenient for securing research funding to treat diseases? When all of the world’s most rich and powerful people are magically immune to those diseases, rendering them exclusively a „poor people problem“ that can be safely ignored.
On one hand, „yay no more genetic diseases“. On the other hand, „aw poor people still have genetic diseases and oh look now the rich are 20% smarter.“