UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo

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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More nonsense use to justify immoral action

[Hungus]

I have severe moral issues with any procedure which results in the deliberate destruction of an embryo. No, I am not utilitarian yes, I am a deontologist (rule set not act).

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[martas]

suggestion: how about replacing normal captcha for submitting as AC with something a bit more complicated? a set of differential equations, perhaps? or maybe require the poster to prove the collatz conjecture, and define a turing machine that can verify the proof?