Lying Their Way to Brave New World
Apparently the UK government wants to push 3-parent IVF. But fearing an adverse public reaction to...
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Tag: Three Parent Embryos
FDA Moving Toward OK for 3-Parent Embryos
An experimental technique for creating embryos with three biological parents appears to be moving toward an okay from the FDA. Ostensibly to prevent mitochondrial disease, the experiment would use one genetically modified egg...
Read MoreNow is the Time to Stop Three-Parent IVF
The UK rubber stamp Embryo Authority has approved the manufacture of three-parent human embryos. The process is done by removing the nucleus from the egg of one woman, putting it into the enucleated egg of another, and then...
Read MoreWhat Risks Should We Accept in Disease Prevention?
I read with much interest Marcy Darnvosky’s article in Nature, “A Slippery Slope to Human Germline Modification.” The article focuses on the ethics of the technology used to create “three-parent...
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