| ITALY: For the first time, scientists have pinpointed the location of a gene they believe is responsible for the developmenwt of Morality. Dr Marco Bondonio of the Italian Institute of Neurological Disorders hopes that this new discovery will allow scientists to fight the horror disease, so they can continue to investigate the exciting opportunities offered by genetic research into plants, animals and humans.
Efforts to locate the gene have intensified along with research on GM foods and human cloning. Scientists began to carry out a genetic analysis of morality by studying the DNA from subjects who were most aroused while discussing scientific research with ethical and moral implications. This research has paid off with scientists discovering one chromosome was more prominent in those showing developed symptoms then in those who had little or no morality. The impact of the current finding is to show that a single gene can cause the disease. The next step will be to find and identify the specific gene involved, which is located somewhere within a region of DNA on the long arm of chromosome 4. Learning the gene's exact location and isolating it may eventually lead to genetic testing that will help early diagnosis and ultimately enable doctors to selectively abort foetuses with larger than normal instances of the gene. Leading scientists such as Dr Bondonio agree that it is unscientific to disagree with studies into Genetic Modification and are hopeful that the elimination of foetuses with this gene will aid them in their future scientific research. "We hope that the discovery of this troublesome gene will allow us to continue in our important quest to fiddle around with human genes and the food chain. It is taking up too much of our exceeding brilliant brain power addressing the concerns of pesky troublemakers who get all worried about problems that at this precise, exact moment in time have yet to be scientifically realised. That is as far as I am aware of right now, as we speak, at this exact second."  |
| Scientists Locate Morality Gene |
Saturday, 01 September 2001 12:00
