Local Opinion: Think hard about the implications of transgenics

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OPINION: 'More recently, in January, the first pig-to-human heart transplant was performed. The heart came from a genetically modified pig. I’m positive no one asked the pig for permission. This bothered me on many levels. Though I don’t eat pork,…

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However, for those of you who never saw the 1978 movie “Coma” by Michael Crichton, based on Robin Cook’s novel, I’ll summarize. Genetically sound humans scheduled for routine surgeries are given carbon monoxide instead of oxygen during their surgeries and fall into irreversible comas. They are then transported to a care center, which is really a warehouse until their organs are harvested for sale.

He was not only a gifted writer, he had graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969. When he wrote about medical and scientific advancements, he had a solid background in those fields of research and followed them closely. In his novel “Next,” published in 2006, he writes about the ramifications and ethics of a human-chimpanzee transgenic as well as an African grey parrot-human . I do not think he was wrong. We are on the horizon of a whole new world; one we created.

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