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The creation of babies with three biological parents has moved closer after a number of monkeys were conceived by a technique that could stop children from inheriting severe genetic diseases.
The modified eggs, containing chromosomes from one female monkey and mitochondria from another, were fertilised by injecting a sperm, and the resulting embryos were transferred to the wombs of surrogate mothers.
Originally posted by kiwifoot
I really don't know how this sits with me.
On the one hand it has the potential to help parents conceive children free of genetic diseases.
But on the other, there is something fundamentally sacrosanct about having offspring created by two parents.
Including a third parent, in my eyes is unnatural.
Originally posted by IAF101
Have you ever heard of Surrogate Mothers ?
On the one hand it has the potential to help parents conceive children free of genetic diseases.