Gag!
Look who's God now.
Yes: If Dr.Mengele were alive today he would be touted as a genius.
We *are* the Nazis.
Looks like little Heather will have two mommies.
But it's not like this baby, assuming it is successfully born, will acquire any of the physical or mental characteristics of its "second" mother.
I'm not saying there are no ethical issues here, it's just important to get the story right. As far as I know it's a long way to actually creating an egg with two equal mothers and no father.
No Men Need Apply.
Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOUILD!
Something tells me that God will have the final say in this, not men:
Isaiah 44:24&25
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
who formed you from the womb:
"I am the LORD, who made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
"The human trial will not see any eggs allowed to develop into babies, but the research nonetheless remains controversial."
So, a human baby will be created in a dish, then picked apart before it gets too big to be called a fetus even...
You are right Aussie .... we beat the Nazis ... but we didn't beat Nazi thinking.
This step is beyond sick. It signals the formal return of slavery in the name of science. People can be owned now, and their genetic information is merely property. People are effectively DNA/RNA suitcases, and the suitcase is subject to the sovreignty of the almighty scientists.
Doctor El .... you will live to regret this step.
The homosexuals will stop at nothing to "legitimize" thier abhorrent, abnormal, and immoral lifestyle - even going so far as to genetically engineer children. ARRRGGHHHH.....
Come Sweet Jesus!
oh.
this isn't what the headline led me to expect.
I thought they were going to try some real Frankenstein business by fusing the haploid nuclear material from ova from two women into a diploid zygote.
Similar procedures have been done. At least 30 babies have been born after in vitro fertilization, followed by the injection of cytoplasme from a healthy donor:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1312708.stm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9570273&dopt=Abstract
""Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year-old children confirm that they contain a small quantity of additional genes not inherited from either parent.""
No, we just stole their research and goals.
It ain't right, makes me wonder why my grandfather fought at Normandy after all. Perhaps we need another Normandy soon.
False god bump!
What is the purpose of this research? Fertility treatment? Disease treatment? Did I miss it?
"The scientists will transfer the pro-nuclei - the components of a human embryo nucleus - made by one man and woman into an unfertilised egg from another woman."
You know, these scientists sure can take all the fun out of your run-of-the-mill threesome! ;)