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thumper
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but all i really wanna post are the pictures...aww




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209209/IVF-procedure-using-DNA-THREE-parents-eradicate-incurable-diseases.html

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"The monkeys that prove babies can be born to THREE parents... and may be the key to halting genetic illness
By David Derbyshire

Scientists have produced four baby monkeys who each have three biological parents.

They used an IVF procedure designed to stop the spread of incurable inherited diseases.

Scientists believe the breakthrough could lead to the first geneticallyengineered children within a few years.

It has provoked an ethical storm, however. Critics say it is a step towards an era of hybrid children and warn that it erodes the sanctity of life.

The technique is intended to help women who carry genetic diseases. It involves transferring healthy DNA from the mother's egg cell into an egg donated by another woman.

Children conceived by the technique would inherit DNA from three sources - their mother, the donor and their father.

The American team who produced the macaque monkeys - named Mito, Tracker, Spindler and Spindy - say the technique could be used to eradicate potentially fatal forms of inherited epilepsy, blindness and heart disease.

The diseases, which affect some 150 UK babies a year, are caused by mutations in the mitochondrial DNA which is passed down from mothers to children.

Mitochondria are sausage- shaped 'power packs' that float around inside cells, converting food into energy that the body can use. Each contains a tiny strand of DNA, carrying just 37 of the 20,000 or so human genes. The rest are in the DNA in the cell's nucleus.

Mitochondrial DNA can only be passed on via mothers' eggs, not through sperm.

Doctors have identified around 50 diseases caused by mutations of this DNA - some of which kill before adulthood. Symptoms include muscle weakness, dementia, blindness, hearing loss and heart and kidney problems.

The U.S. experiment, reported today in the journal Nature, involved researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Centre. They took an egg cell from a mother carrying a mitochondrial disease and removed its nuclear DNA. This was then transferred into a second, healthy egg, whose own nuclear DNA had been removed.

The resulting 'hybrid' eggs contained nuclear DNA from the mother and fully-functioning mitochondrial DNA from the donor, and produced apparently healthy baby monkeys.

Such a process alters the DNA inherited by future generations, however - an idea that has long worried ethicists - although mitochondrial DNA affects only how cells convert food into energy, so children would inherit physical characteristics from their real mother's nuclear DNA.

Josephine Quintavalle, of the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: 'This is genetic engineering.

'We should avoid at all costs interfering in the pattern of reproduction that has evolved over millions of years. The objective is to stop mitochondrial diseases in the next generation - but it would be absurd if it unleashed something worse in generations to come.'

Stephen Green, director of pressure group Christian Voice, said he had concerns that scientists were going 'too far, too fast' and 'playing God'.

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8/27/2009 12:30:18 PM

Mr Scrumples
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*crickets*

8/27/2009 12:32:30 PM

thumper
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i suppose i should take out all the [words]

8/27/2009 12:33:27 PM

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"sausage- shaped 'power packs'"



HI-O

8/27/2009 12:34:23 PM

thumper
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LOOK AT THOSE FACES

8/27/2009 12:41:22 PM

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8/27/2009 12:43:32 PM

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"Scientists believe the breakthrough could lead to the first geneticallyengineered children within a few years. "


8/27/2009 12:48:48 PM

parsonsb
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We don't need to be fucking with that, who knows what benefit or immunity those "defects" could have

when we start trying to control our own evolution we're going to cause more harm than good

8/27/2009 12:59:25 PM

sawahash
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^what he said

8/27/2009 1:02:15 PM

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8/27/2009 1:02:55 PM

BigHitSunday
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The porn industry has been experimenting with this for years

these guys need to give proper credit

8/27/2009 1:03:26 PM

saps852
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mutant babies...


sweet

8/27/2009 1:05:15 PM

sawahash
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That is a really awesome breakthrough and finding, and maybe it can lead to some other great findings too, but I don't think we should go around playing with the genetics of babies.

8/27/2009 1:07:36 PM

BigHitSunday
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i dont see how people that are so against things like genetically modified foods would be in favor of this

unless its because there are pictures of cute monkeys

8/27/2009 1:09:31 PM

thumper
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i am neither in support of or against this. in fact, i didn't even read beyond the first few sentences. as i stated in the OP, i just wanted to post the pics!

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they do kinda look like mutants don't they

8/27/2009 1:11:17 PM

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The Tralfamadorians tried to give Billy clues that would help him imagine sex in the invisible dimension. They told him that there could be no Earthling babies without male homosexuals. There could be babies without female homosexuals. There couldn't be babies without women over sixty-five years old. There could be babies without men over sixty-five. There couldn't be babies without other babies who had lived an hour or less after birth. And so on. It was gibberish to Billy.

8/27/2009 1:51:07 PM

LRlilDaddy
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so, can this happen from double penetration?

8/27/2009 1:54:02 PM

LRlilDaddy
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"The porn industry has been experimenting with this for years

these guys need to give proper credit"


sorry big hit sunday. didnt see this in time. i give you proper credit sir

8/27/2009 1:55:01 PM

qntmfred
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haha

8/27/2009 1:58:12 PM

lafta
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"The porn industry has been experimenting with this for years

these guys need to give proper credit"


haha, well done

8/27/2009 2:33:23 PM

thumper
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OH BUT THE MONKEYS

HERE, LET ME SHOW THEM TO YOU AGAIN

at first i was all:


and then i was like:

8/27/2009 2:34:05 PM

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