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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. 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?

  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. 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." ?