Iron mixed with clay — they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men but shall not cleave. Describes boundary violations between species or orders of being through genetic manipulation.
בְרַזֶל (barzel, H1270); חֹמֶר (chomer, H2635); זָרַע (zara, H2233); דָּבַק (dabaq, H1692)
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
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And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
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The headline about genetic modification of babies directly parallels Daniel 2:43's prophecy of 'mingling with the seed of men.' Cathy Tie's explicit mission to genetically modify human embryos represents a modern fulfillment of boundary violations between natural and artificial creation—the iron mixed with clay that 'shall not cleave one to another,' describing incompatible genetic admixture that violates God's created order.
The use of deceased person's genetic material to create new life represents a form of genetic manipulation that stretches the boundaries of natural procreation. This tangentially connects to Daniel 2:43's 'mingling with the seed of men' (Hebrew: עָרַב זְרַע אֲנָשָׁא), though the prophecy likely refers to non-human entities mixing with human genetics rather than posthumous human reproduction.