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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Feb 3, 2015, 03:25 PM Feb 2015

Interfaith post-England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents

Trevor Grundy

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Members of Parliament voted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.

If the measure also passes Britain’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, England would become the first country to legalize the procedure.
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/02/03/england-mulls-legalization-vitro-technique-giving-baby-dna-three-parents/

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Interfaith post-England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents (Original Post) hrmjustin Feb 2015 OP

At first I thought they meant splicing DNA from 3 people into one nucleus. arcane1 Feb 2015 #1

GMO babies. rug Feb 2015 #2

arcane1

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1. At first I thought they meant splicing DNA from 3 people into one nucleus.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 03:40 PM

Feb 2015

But this doesn't bother me at all. Maybe, 100 generations from now, some geologist will get inaccurate data if they're tracing mitochondria, but that's not too terrible since it would still be coming from someone nearby.

I always thought of mitochondria as separate organisms anyway.

rug

(82,333 posts)

2. GMO babies.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2015, 04:39 PM

Feb 2015

I'm staying out of GD.

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