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UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo

Posted by kdawson on from the like-changing-the-battery dept.

Troll-Under-D'Bridge writes "The BBC reports that British scientists have manufactured embryos containing genetic material from a man and two women. Under the procedure developed by scientists from Newcastle University, the nuclei from a father's sperm and a mother's egg are transferred into a second woman's egg 'from which the nucleus had been removed, but which retained its mitochondria.' The research, which may 'help mothers with rare genetic disorders have healthy children,' used embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization treatment."

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  1. Wow . . . by StefanJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Heather REALLY HAS two mommies!

    1. Re:Wow . . . by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah - just double the headaches, and a 'honeydo' list that's twice as long.

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    2. Re:Wow . . . by need4mospd · · Score: 2, Funny

      There are some positive side effects, such as the dishes are washed in half the time and meal time means twice the number of sandwiches made. Hopefully with extra bacon. However, one should have access to alternate housing should the two menstrual cycles overlap.

  2. They've Finally Done It. by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists have found a way to ruin the meaning of "threesome". Is this the true cost of progress?

    1. Re:They've Finally Done It. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well of course. A few years ago we were all at work. Now you send a few resumes each morning and menage the rest of the day.

  3. Re:More nonsense use to justify immoral action by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have severe moral issues with people who think that morality is anything more than an arbitrary human construct largely defined by unconscious mental process shaped by evolution, thus making axiology a faux endeavor, you insensitive clod!

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  4. Ménage à trois by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    A very scientific, high tech, in vitro ménage à trois.

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    1. Re:Ménage à trois by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Funny

      I prefer the old fashioned way of combining the genetic material of a man and two women personally.

  5. Re:More nonsense use to justify immoral action by joocemann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you mean to say "I don't like this." ?

  6. Re:Three parents? Not really. by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Specifically metabolism can you imagine two identical twins where one was fat and the other skinny?

    Sure, if I replace the word "identical" with "very different".

  7. Re:Really? by Penguinisto · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kids with spam for genetic material?

    I'm sure Hormel has that patented. :)

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  8. Re:You FAIL iT.. by russotto · · Score: 2, Funny

    or maybe require the poster to prove the collatz conjecture, and define a turing machine that can verify the proof?

    Last time they tried that I was a wiseguy and submitted a turing machine which would halt iff the collatz conjecture was true. Next thing you know, Slashdot went down trying to verify whether the thing halted. I don't think my post ever made it either.

  9. The real winners ... by Redwing · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real winners are the writers of Law & Order who have a great 3-way custody episode to create.

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