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UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos'
sciencehabit writes "The U.K. government today issued proposed regulations that would allow researchers to try a new and controversial in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure in patients. The technique could allow women who are carriers of mitochondrial disease to have healthy, genetically related children. But it also transfers DNA from one egg or embryo into another, a form of genetic alteration that could be passed on to future generations. Altering the genes of human egg cells or embryos in IVF procedures is now forbidden in the United Kingdom."
I thought the SyFy channel ran out of ideas after Sharknado. I guess not.
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This is a solution doesn't just allow such women to have healthy, genetically related children. It frees their lineage from the disease. Implement this fix in one generation, and the children, grandchildren, and all their progeny are disease-free.
I find it incredibly offensive to say that women should be forced to condemn their children to suffer from a preventable disease, or be prevented from bearing genetically-related children, simply because some people think the cure is "unnatural".
SO .. will the third parent be asked to pay child support by the court?
Nuclear power is safe too, you just need to store your eggs and sperm under ground or encased in lead.
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back in the old days they would have called something like SARS a walking pneumonia, as sort of a catch all for a contagious pneumonia that sometimes progresses in an acute pneumonia. There could possibly been dozens of viral outbreaks like SARS in the past that we don't know about because virology didn't exist to identify the cause of such diseases. And it wasn't in fashion for doctors back then to give a collection of symptoms scary sounding acronyms.
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Supremely selfish and cruel thing to do without even the remotest understanding of the potential consequences.
What if this leaves the child diseased or crippled with some kind of birth defect? Or that child's children?
Experimenting on human beings who have no say in the procedure in order to satisfy some ambitious ego is nothing more than an expression of pure evil.
(Yes I realize this is high blasphemy against the holy church of science and that it will be modded -1 "Heathen" I don't care. It needs to be said)
This new technology is an affront to our traditional three-parent conception model!
It really should be not a parent but a genetic information contributor. If it is parent they have an extra target for child support.
However if they do make it parent then I want my probiotic yogurt maker listed as my parent and years of support payments. I am linking the bacteria are a large part of our component body to this notion that a supplier of genetic materials becomes financially liable for care.
By its very definition of how it's done is unnatural and the long term consequences to the gene pool unknown.
By that definition so is just about every medical treatment or procedure ever devised. Any treatment that cures someone and lets them live long enough to reproduce affects the gene pool this include vaccines, antibiotics etc. Indeed you could argue that this problem is itself unnatural since many people with genetic diseases would not live long enough to reproduce in the natural world. So, unless you want to argue that we are better off without any medicine we are already tampering with the gene pool and an increase in genetic disease is likely one consequence. So surely the logical response is to use medicine to cure this problem by getting rid of the defective genes which medicine allowed into the gene pool in the first place?
a great opportunity for women like that.
Also a great step forward to removing genetic diseases from the gene pool.
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If only people with such conditions had the for-sight simply to remove themselves from the gene pool(Don't have kids).
We are 'eating' ourselves out of a clean environment. We speak all we want about being environmentally responsible and thats fine and dandy but the real problem is our numbers.
I dont' speak of food resources alone, but everything we take to build/live.
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My DNA is already a mis-mash of genes from millions of ancestors. What would one more matter?
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the thing still has nearly as much independent genome as it did in its free-living days
Is it right that the Eukaryote races have enslaved this hardworking powerhouse bacterial entity? What about the rights of each mitochondrion to free-living? Oh yeah, it's a bacterium. It doesn't have rights.
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Speaking of which, does anyone else hate the new "alien nation" rip-off as much as me?
it seems like the human race is the first species to be subject to Darwin's Corollary for the Modern Age. we are so fit, we have degraded to Survival of the Least Adequate.
I think there are some bird species with super efficient ATP generation due to superior mitochondria. I’d love to be able to replace all of mine with theirs.
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