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The FDA is trying to decide whether or not to approve a procedure that give a child three biological parents.\u00a0 \u201cDefective\u201d DNA in a mother\u2019s egg would be replaced by \u201cgood\u201d DNA from a second woman, then fertilized, giving the child three parents and eliminating certain inherited diseases.<\/p>\n

A great technology to ease human suffering, or a grotesque violation of nature?\u00a0 Or both?\u00a0 What should the FDA decide?<\/p>\n

From FDA panel debates technique that would create embryos with three genetic parents \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The provocative notion of genetically modified babies met the very real world of federal regulation Tuesday, as a government advisory committee began debating a new technique that combines DNA from three people to create embryos free of certain inherited diseases.<\/p>\n

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The two-day meeting of the Food and Drug Administration panel is focused on a procedure that scientists think could help women who carry DNA mutations for conditions such as blindness and epilepsy. The process would let them have children without passing on those defects.<\/p>\n

The debate over whether the technique \u2014 nicknamed \u201cthree-parent IVF\u201d \u2014 should be allowed to proceed to human tests underscores how quickly the science of reproductive medicine is evolving. Scientists argue that this technology, like cloning and embryonic stem cell research, has huge potential to help people. But it is also highly sensitive, touching ethical and political nerves.<\/p>\n

The technology involves taking defective mitochondria, the cell\u2019s powerhouses, from a mother\u2019s egg and replacing them with healthy mitochondria from another woman. After being fertilized by the father\u2019s sperm in a lab, the egg would be implanted in the mother, and the pregnancy could progress normally.<\/p>\n

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The FDA is trying to decide whether or not to approve a procedure that give a child three biological parents.\u00a0 \u201cDefective\u201d DNA in a mother\u2019s egg would be replaced by \u201cgood\u201d DNA from a second woman, then fertilized, giving the child three parents and eliminating certain inherited diseases. 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