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Combining The DNA Of 3 People Raises Ethical Questions
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Combining The DNA Of 3 People Raises Ethical Questions

Scientists in England are ready to do something that's never been done before — combine the DNA of two women and one man to create embryos that don't carry hereditary mitochondrial disorders.

Combining The DNA Of 3 People Raises Ethical Questions

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Proposed Treatment To Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues

This micrograph shows a single mitochondrion (yellow), one of many little energy factories inside a cell. Keith R. Porter/Science Source hide caption

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Proposed Treatment To Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues

The treatment would allow doctors to replace the genetic glitches in one human egg with healthy DNA from a donor egg. Ethicists are concerned because any changes to eggs or sperm could be passed on for generations to come.

Proposed Treatment To Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues

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