Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Babies with 3 genetic parents

Nuclear DNA from mother and denucleated egg from donor (i.e. mitochondrial DNA from donor).

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/britain-becomes-first-to-allow-babies-with-3-genetic-parents/

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  1. The alteration of every cell of a human embryo is vastly different from the replacement of diseased mitochondria in a woman's egg -- a technique I wrote about on this blog 2 months ago. In that genetic alteration, less than a tenth of 1% of the genome would be affected, and those effects are not ones that determine the individual characteristics that make us what we are.

    http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/Doctor'sTablet/51460?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-05-12&eun=g906366d0r&userid=906366&mu_id=5793688

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