The New York Times - FEB. 23, 2014
BERKELEY, Calif. — AN advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is set to begin two days of meetings tomorrow to consider radical biological procedures
that, if successful, would produce genetically modified human beings.
This is a dangerous step. These techniques would change every cell in
the bodies of children born as a result of their use, and these
alterations would be passed down to future generations.
The
F.D.A. calls them mitochondrial manipulation technologies. The
procedures involve removing the nuclear material either from the egg or
embryo of a woman with inheritable mitochondrial disease and inserting
it into a healthy egg or embryo of a donor whose own nuclear material
has been discarded. Any offspring would carry genetic material from
three people — the nuclear DNA of the mother and father, and the
mitochondrial DNA of the donor.
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