Wednesday 14 April 2010

The start of designer babies?

Embryos containing DNA from a man and two women have been created by scientists at Newcastle University.

This new avenue of exploration into IVF treatment has led to the creation of an embryo where one mother's genes are replaced with more desirable one from a donor mother, due to the original egg donor having a potentially harmful genetic condition. Have we stumbled into designer babies?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8619533.stm