Dad May Join Two Moms for Disease-Free Designer Babies

Dad May Join Two Moms for Disease-Free Designer Babies
A new technology aimed at eliminating genetic disease in newborns would combine the DNA of three people, instead of just two, to create a child, potentially redrawing ethical lines for designer babies. The process works by replacing potentially variant DNA in the unfertilized eggs of a hopeful mother with disease-free genes from a donor. 

FDA Panel Mulls Technique That Creates Babies Using DNA of 3 People
Federal health regulators are debating a technique that would allow babies to be created from the DNA of three people. The hope of the technique is to someday eradicate mitochondrial disease, which can cause epilepsy, blindness and more.

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