One Embryo from Three Parents

[Mickey1953]

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Scientists Say They've Created Single Embryo From Three Parents

Tuesday, February 05, 2008



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328369,00.html

LONDON — British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
Though the preliminary research has raised concerns about the possibility of genetically modified babies, the scientists say that the embryos are still only primarily the product of one man and one woman.
"We are not trying to alter genes, we're just trying to swap a small proportion of the bad ones for some good ones," said Patrick Chinnery, a professor of neurogenetics at Newcastle University involved in the research......



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[GrannieAnnie]

Maybe they can call the company that's doing all this....

Monsters Incorporated..................

 

[HannahBanana]

Maybe they can call the company that's doing all this....

Monsters Incorporated..................

Huh? You think that these scientists are doing a bad thing?

As for me, I think this is great. After all, it's not like children with inherited diseases choose to have those diseases or anything. So why not make there be a way that they could avoid getting those diseases?

 

[moonkitty]

Maybe they can call the company that's doing all this....

Monsters Incorporated..................

From the article:

Researchers can theoretically prevent the passing of mitochondrial disease in a child by extracting nuclear DNA from a mother with mitochondrial disease and a father, then injecting that DNA into a donor egg from a woman without mitochondrial disease.
The resulting embryo, in effect, had three parents but was disease-free. It inherited all the physical characteristics from Mom and Dad but received its healthy mitochondrial DNA from the woman providing the "donor egg."

Yeah, children born without a horrible disease--they are truly monsters.