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The implications of genetic engineering to athletics are enormous. At the most basic level we have cloning. Cloning is the technique whereby an identical organism can be "grown" from a single cell of a parent cell. No courting, dating, or sex required! Just take a hair or a skin sample and in a short period of time a whole new organism, genetically identical to the donor parent, is produced.
Can you imagine five Dorian Yates' trading poses with five Nasser El Sonbatys'? How about ten Paul Dillet's crunching down into a series of most musculars. For those that view such images with skepticism, remember that mice have already been cloned, and only strict laws have prevented such experiments with humans. Many well respected geneticists suggest that cloning humans is already possible, and not a figment of some writers imagination.
If cloning has its limits its that the offspring are identical to the parents. Any imperfections will be passed on. As would be expected, science can get around this by embryo fusion and gene splicing.
Embryo fusion involves combining two eggs or early embryos to give the resulting child the benefit of four variations of genetics-two parents per embryo.What this means is that a child could be "Taylor made" to possess the traits of four different humans. Combine embryo fusion with gene splicing(the insertion of individual genes into an egg, sperm, or embryo) and the bodybuilder of the 21st century is created.
Can you imagine five Dorian Yates' trading poses with five Nasser El Sonbatys'? How about ten Paul Dillet's crunching down into a series of most musculars. For those that view such images with skepticism, remember that mice have already been cloned, and only strict laws have prevented such experiments with humans. Many well respected geneticists suggest that cloning humans is already possible, and not a figment of some writers imagination.
If cloning has its limits its that the offspring are identical to the parents. Any imperfections will be passed on. As would be expected, science can get around this by embryo fusion and gene splicing.
Embryo fusion involves combining two eggs or early embryos to give the resulting child the benefit of four variations of genetics-two parents per embryo.What this means is that a child could be "Taylor made" to possess the traits of four different humans. Combine embryo fusion with gene splicing(the insertion of individual genes into an egg, sperm, or embryo) and the bodybuilder of the 21st century is created.
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