The genetic manipulation will allow to live until the 200 or 300 years
The manipulation of some genes will allow the human beings to get to live 200 or 300 years and that will give an upset to the world, reason why the discussion on the subject must begin already, noticed the Italian geneticist Edoardo Boncinelli. In an interview in the newspaper the World, the person in charge of the laboratory of Molecular and Technological Biology of the Scientific Institute San Rafael of Milan indicated that very surely the first genes that will be touched are those that regulate the longevity.
`Touching some genes we will be able to live 200 or 300 years, and when that happens, surely the world will give an upset. For me it would be necessary to begin to discuss the subject already today, but the man never discusses before, but first he makes the things, and later discute', said.
Boncinelli, that it has published near 22 scientific books, was questioned on if that manipulation of genes it could make the man morally better.
When responding of scientific way it exposed that `all the complex characters, like intelligence, the docilidad, kindness and the will are not controlled by a single gene, nor either by hundreds or thousands, but probably by thousands of millones'.
It stressed that these characteristics of the man are widely genetic, `but we cannot hope that changing one or ten genes we obtain great results. That is to say, the technical problem is to make the things exactly progresivamente'.
The also member one of the European Organization of Biología Molecular (EMBO) assured that the man is genetically identical for exactly 150 thousand years. `The important thing of the genome has not changed, nor the brain humano', stressed.
It added that `everything what is said on the matter is nonsenses, and we must be thankful for God to him that the brain is not cambiado'.
`Piense if not what it would happen if some grew in a mistaken family, of people who reason bad for generations: one would also become somebody mistaken, but when we are born we are clean, virgin, puros', maintained.
Geneticist considered `maravilloso' previous perhaps since while the animal only have a biological evolution, and therefore the slowest adaptation, the man in addition has a cultural evolution, that goes rapidísima, too much.
Nevertheless, it wrote down that this can be explained because the men are the animal that are born with the most immature brain.
`When we arrived at this world our brain is small and is empty, is as if I bought a computer whose hardware is not finished, but it is perfected while funciona', added.
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