06 February 2008

Embryos created with DNA from 3 people - Yahoo! News

If this goes much further it could, among other things, require a complete redesign of genealogy software.

Embryos created with DNA from 3 people - Yahoo! News
British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.

Though the preliminary research has raised concerns about the possibility of genetically modified babies, the scientists say that the embryos are still only primarily the product of one man and one woman.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I blogged about this, but I completely missed the genealogy angle!

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