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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Britain votes to allow world's first 'three-parent' IVF babies

Britain voted on Tuesday to become the first country to allow a "three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards creating designer babies.

The treatment is known as "three-parent" in vitro fertilisation (IVF) because the babies, born from genetically modified embryos, would have DNA from a mother, a father and from a female donor.

It is designed to help families with mitochondrial diseases, incurable conditions passed down the maternal line that affect around one in 6,500 children worldwide.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hybrids are also a product of 3 donors.

Anonymous said...

I am all for open science but even I have my limits. This is unnatural and will end badly.

Anonymous said...

Every time we humans mess with mother nature it never seems to go well. Maybe that is God's plan.

Anonymous said...

Like a sci fi movie. The elites will someday rule the world.