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World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com)
A five-month-old baby boy has been revealed as the first kid in the world with three biological parents, reports New Scientist. The baby boy was apparently conceived by a technique that has been legally approved in the UK, and lets parents with genetic disorders have healthy babies. Though, the method used in this particular cases was slightly different from one legalized in the UK. From the report: Zhang (a doctor) took a different approach, called spindle nuclear transfer. He removed the nucleus from one of the mother's eggs and inserted it into a donor egg that had had its own nucleus removed. The resulting egg -- with nuclear DNA from the mother and mitochondrial DNA from a donor -- was then fertilised with the father's sperm. Zhang's team used this approach to create five embryos, only one of which developed normally. This embryo was implanted in the mother and the child was born nine months later. "It's exciting news," says Bert Smeets at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The team will describe the findings at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's Scientific Congress in Salt Lake City in October.
Particularly when it leads to definitional collapse leaving people with (or making them realize they always had) the question of what specifically justifies for them and their particular DNA pattern the specially-treated category of "human".
I suggest the differentiator of a "soul".
Your mileage, and your logically-unavoidable results, may vary.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
There is more demand for adopting babies than babies available.
Indeed. My wife and I looked into adoption, and we were told it would be a long arduous and expensive process, and in the end we would probably be rejected because of my age (50+). So we got a dog instead.
Just increase immigration to compensate and better outcomes for all.
RTFA. This procedure is illegal in the USA, so the parents went to Mexico. This baby IS an immigrant.
RE: In general though they need to join the rest of secular society, see the same movies, talk about the same sports, eat most of the same foods, date people no from their orign group,
Why do you hate America and its values?
Should we deport all the Amish? Orthodox and Hasidim Jews? Moral majority-style Christians? Mormons? Devout Muslims?
I agree some cultures are better than others, but you have American culture quite wrong.
The things we should share in common are respect for the law, right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, understanding of inalienable rights, and so on. Take some civics classes or something.
The sports and movies and (presumably) TV trash you are talking about is absolutely unnecessary to partake to be a good American. Shame on you, and learn to love what this country is actually about.
ironic captcha; idealism