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A Quick (yet Interesting) Post

by Gabrielle on February 5th, 2008

Oh friends, it’s budget day in Pennsylvania and my brain is just about fried. I’m still working at my day job (even though it’s well into the evening), still on the clock, but I just wanted to share an interesting post that Elaine just posted on another Science and Health channel blog, Genetics and Health, entitled “Scientists Create Three Parent Embryo.” Why? A team from Newcastle University

believe the technique could help to eradicate a whole class of hereditary diseases, including some forms of epilepsy and ensure women with genetic defects do not pass the diseases on to their children.

Wow. Elaine has more details over at Genetics and Health.

Anna, the blogger and new mom from Right vs. Easy is one woman who chose to use donor eggs and assisted reproductive technology not because she was infertile, but because she had no interest in passing along her genetic mutation (Adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD). Perhaps this new technique could help others in her predicament have their own biological child without the fear of passing on any debilitating genetic disease.

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