Paul Knoepfler: The ethical dilemma of designer babies
Pol Nofler (Paul Knoepfler): Etička dilema dizajniranja beba
Paul Knoepfler is a biomedical scientist and writer focusing on stem cells and genetics. Full bio
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to go down that road together?
da zajedno krenemo tim putem?
friends and coworkers
naši prijatelji i kolege
Marianne, next to you,
nazvali prirodnim
consciously made that decision,
svesno doneli tu odluku,
they kind of look down on you.
vas gledaju s nipodaštavanjem.
a Luddite or a technophobe.
who lives right next door,
koja živi u komšiluku,
designer baby with numerous upgrades.
dizajnerska beba s brojnim unapređenjima.
modification technology
za genetske modifikacije
hired to do this
unajmili da ovo urade
into a whole panel of human embryos.
u čitav niz ljudskih embriona.
that little tiny embryo, Jenna's embryo,
Dženin embrion,
in your living room
each other for years now,
she's smarter than you,
pametnija je od vas,
a whole new generation
than their parents' generation,
od generacije njihovih roditelja,
of health conditions,
zdravstevnih stanja,
this sort of unsettling feeling,
just not quite right about Jenna,
prosto nije kako treba kod Džene
about other GM kids that you've met.
o drugoj GM deci koju ste upoznali.
in the newspaper earlier this week
ranije ove nedelje
who were born as designer babies
koja su rođena kao dizajnirane bebe,
and narcissism.
i narcisoidnosti.
from Jenna's family.
čuli od Dženine porodice.
to a special school,
than your daughter Marianne,
your family into a disarray.
vašu porodicu iz ravnoteže.
to kiss her goodnight,
i ljubili za laku noć,
even be my friend anymore?"
mi Džena uopšte više biti prijateljica?"
this imagined 2030 story,
ovu zamišljenu priču iz 2030,
that I may have put some of you
frame of reference. Right?
naučnofantastičnu knjigu.
in Halloween mode of thinking.
u smeru Noći veštica.
a possible reality for us,
matičnih ćelija i genetike
on what we decide to do today.
šta odlučimo danas.
kind of thinking in sci-fi mode,
u naučnofantastičnom smeru,
had a huge shock earlier this year,
poprilično zatečen ranije ove godine,
doesn't even know about it.
pre svega nekoliko meseci,
of genetically modified human embryos.
genetski modifikovane ljudske embrione.
this new CRISPR technology.
nove CRISPR tehnologije.
they sort of cracked the door ajar
da su time odškrinuli vrata
are going to run with this technology
voditi ovom tehnologijom
may hold up your hands and say,
će da podignu ruke i kažu:
and create a designer baby."
i stvoriš dizajniranu bebu."
including my country, the US,
uključujući moju državu, SAD,
so in theory, you could do it.
pa u teoriji, mogli biste to da uradite.
this year that resonates in this area,
koji se odrazio na ovu oblast,
not so far from here over in the UK.
u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu.
has been the strictest country
bila najstroža država
genetic modification.
o genetskim modifikacijama ljudi.
of genetically modified humans
genetski modifikovanih ljudi
to prevent a rare kind of genetic disease.
retki oblici genetskih bolesti.
these events are pushing us
ovih događaja pomera
about this CRISPR technology.
o toj tehnologiji CRISPR.
that we're all more familiar with,
koji nam je svima poznatiji,
is similar to the technologies
a genetic Swiss army knife.
švajcarskog vojničkog noža.
da je to švajcarski nož
is kind of like a magnifying glass
u određenoj tački.
the genetic code in that location.
genetski kôd na toj lokaciji.
on the scene just three years ago,
pre samo tri godine,
so freaking exciting to scientists,
i tako je prokleto uzbudljiva naučnicima,
and we use it in my own lab,
i koristimo je u našoj laboratoriji,
is going to go that extra step
ljudskog embriona
literally have this in hand today,
ovo bukvalno imaju pri ruci
in designer babies.
dizajniranje beba.
going on with CRISPR.
sprovodi CRIPR-om.
now do genetic modifications
da radimo genetske modifikacije,
and cost millions of dollars
i koštale milione dolara,
for a couple thousand bucks,
za nekoliko hiljada dolara,
so much on science.
to be driving them.
or the chase for a profit.
ili jurenje za novcem.
for designer babies.
zabrinuti zbog ovoga?
if we go back two centuries,
ako se vratimo dva veka unazad,
profoundly have impacted humanity,
istinski uticali na čovečanstvo,
a social Darwinism at work in our world,
poput društvenog darvinizma u našem svetu,
of this CRISPR technology
one century to the last century
jedan vek u prošli vek
and he was born here in 1929.
had little baby Peter,
dobili malenu bebu Pitera,
of the eugenics equation.
eugeničke jednačine.
home for generations,
bila dom njihovoj porodici,
but they were heartbroken,
ever really got over leaving Vienna.
ikad prežalio odlazak iz Beča.
gentler, positive eugenics,
nežnija, pozitivna eugenika,
on trying to improve people,
na pokušavanje da poboljša ljude,
of this new eugenics,
ove nove eugenike
to make it happen.
karta za njeno ostvarivanje.
about making better people.
about a human being?
o ljudskim bićima?
da možda mnogi od nas
we think we could be better.
vidove da se popravimo.
more hair here, instead of baldness.
da imam više kose ovde, umesto ćelavosti.
we could make those things happen,
ako bismo mogli sve to da ostvarimo
in our children,
kod naše dece,
would be these risks.
to individuals as well.
na unapređivanje ljudi
healthier using genetic modification,
upotrebom genetskih modifikacija,
we could make them sicker.
da ih napravimo bolesnijima.
important genetic modification research
istraživanje genetskih modifikacija
za dizajniranje beba -
the designer baby route,
putem dizajniranja beba,
an interest in genetic modification.
za genetske modifikacije.
naše zamišljeno GM dete, Džena,
like they have lower health care costs,
da ima niže troškove zdravstvene nege,
may start trying to compel their citizens
mogu da počnu da sile svoje građane
the birth of 400 million human beings.
rođenje 400 miliona ljudskih bića.
could be something that governments push.
mogle da budu nešto što vlade guraju.
are thought to be fashionable,
da su dizajnirane bebe moderne,
the new glitterati,
that we really could control?
koje bi zaista mogli da kontrolišemo?
about genetic modification,
o genetskim modifikacijama,
više od bilo čega drugog,
or invoked more than anything else,
and all this other stuff.
i razne druge stvari.
and we think about it in the human context
i razmislimo o tome u ljudskom kontekstu
costume their children genetically,
da genetski kostimiraju svoju decu,
a Frankenstein 2.0 kind of situation?
o nekoj vrsti situacije Frankenštajn 2.0?
it's going to get to that extreme.
da će ići toliko daleko.
hacking the human code,
ljudskog kôda,
u smislu šta bi moglo proizaći iz toga.
in terms of what might come of that.
of transformative science
basically go out of control
u suštini otrgli kontroli
and that is in vitro fertilization.
a to je vantelesna oplodnja.
Louise Brown was born,
five million IVF babies have been born,
rođeno vantelesnom oplodnjom,
za četiri decenije,
in four decades,
from a new technology
zahvaljujući novoj tehnologiji
and designer babies.
i dizajniranjem beba.
we make in the next few months,
koje donesemo u narednih nekoliko meseci,
of genetically modified humans.
genetski modifikovanih ljudi.
because if we, you in the audience, or I,
jer ako mi, vi u publici ili ja,
be genetically modified, and so on,
da budu genetski modifikovana itd.
with human genetic modification?
ljudskih genetskih modifikacija?
creating genetically modified people,
stvaranje genetski modifikovanih ljudi
and too unpredictable.
i suviše nepredvidivo.
for me to say that in public,
self-regulation and things like that.
samoregulaciju i slične stvari.
koji ne samo da se ne slažu sa mnom,
who not only disagree with me,
full speed ahead,
idu punom brzinom napred,
uslediti u narednih nekoliko meseci,
to follow in the next few months,
there may be no moratorium.
of the problem that we have
applying to humans,
koja je primenjiva na ljude,
this is a revolution,
ovo je revolucija
na veoma lične načine.
in very personal ways.
is actually to change that
da to zapravo promenim
that there will be a role for the public
biti mesta za javnost
to 2030 again, that imagined story,
opet na 2030, na tu zamišljenu priču,
we make, again, today --
koje, opet, donesemo danas -
the next year or so,
sledećih godinu,
is spreading like wildfire.
u toj stvarnosti.
da imamo dizajniranu bebu?
the sort of traditional route,
nekom vrstom tradicionalnog puta,
the place like mine.
are kind of swinging like this,
but compare them, right?
a da ih ne poredite, zar ne?
they're a better student,
you need to wipe.
might you make next time?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Knoepfler - BiologistPaul Knoepfler is a biomedical scientist and writer focusing on stem cells and genetics.
Why you should listen
Dr. Paul Knoepfler loves stem cells. He is working to figure out how we use safely them to treat many diseases and how stem cells sometimes turn to the dark side to cause cancer. Over the years he has made key discoveries about how stem cells and cancer are programmed. Now he is especially interested in how to hack these cells to control their behavior, including using powerful CRISPR genetic modification technology.
Knoepfler has also been a leading voice in the discussion about how CRISPR could be used to make designer babies and the risks of going down that path. He is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine in California, where he both does research and teaches. In addition, he is a prolific writer including his popular science blog, The Niche, and two books: Stem Cells: An Insider's Guide and GMO Sapiens: The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies. He is excited about contributing to efforts to build an innovative, global community of interconnected people with a shared passion for biomedical science and battling fake science. Knoepfler’s outspoken, approachable nature in tackling some of the most transformative questions in science has made him a go-to scientist for journalists and ordinary people across the globe.
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