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posted by janrinok on Thursday December 15 2016, @03:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the hello,-ma,-ma-and-pa dept.

The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will decide on December 15th whether to let three-person embryo trials proceed:

Authorities in the United Kingdom may soon approve clinical testing of the so-called "three-parent embryo" technique to prevent the transmission of potentially fatal genetic disease, despite ongoing concerns about its effectiveness. An advisory panel of the U.K. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), announced today that the procedure is ready for limited clinical testing, Nature reports, and HFEA is expected to make an official decision on whether to allow such trials on 15 December.

The first baby born using the technique occurred in September.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @05:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @05:42AM (#441523)

    That's gonna make for some tricky paper-work

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  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday December 15 2016, @07:17AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday December 15 2016, @07:17AM (#441534) Journal

    And you are forgetting the one that actually parents the child, the one that matters, the one that stays after all the other biological mercenaries have been paid off and have left, like Francis. The REAL parent. Genes mean nothing. It is the one, or the two, or the many, that raises the child who are the actual parents.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:17PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:17PM (#441581)

      Well, I guess we need to change all the forms then, to ask for all the parents: Mother, Father, Smizmar, etc.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:46PM (#441587)

      If the genes mean nothing then why not just adopt?