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In the first of its kind experiment, a science laboratory in Gulmargh University has successfully “created” a human embryo using genetic information from 20 Indian donors. The lab called the experiment a “resounding success” in the fight against carrying forward of disease-causing and weak family genes. The lab said that it was critical to the success of the experiment to find “useful” genetic information from strong and healthy donors. This is the reason, they say, it took 20 Indian donors while a similar experiment in the United Kingdom took three.

“We are working with different dynamics in India,” said Dr. Gulbaksh Singh who headed the experiment, “given the proliferation of unwanted genes in the people of the country, we could not use more than one or two pieces of genetic information from each person.” The experiment took healthy and intelligent genes from these people, including intelligence, height, propensity for weight gain and hard work to create the “hybrid embryo.” The embryo, which will not be allowed to be fertilised and no actual human being would come from it, will be used to treat disease-causing genes in humans. “The intelligence gene was the hardest to come by,” said Singh, “in fact, the gene itself is a complex puzzle of information from 20 people to create one intelligent person.”

The experiment did not cause the kind of flutter that it did in Western countries because of the complexity of its cause. “I guess people did not really even understand what we were doing,” said Singh jokingly, “try to explain creating a human being in a lab to an average Indian and he would think we are creating Giant Robot or something.” With the science fiction factor definitely not a concern, and ethical issues not something that would challenge the people of the country, Singh is hopeful of a lot of good coming out of this experiment. “It would help us save lives so that we have a thriving population.”

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