Genetics Part XV : Eliminating Fault !

A public consultation has been launched to discuss the ethics of :

using three people

to create one baby.... hocked:

The technique could be used to prevent ;

debilitating and fatal "mitochondrial" diseases,

which are passed down only from mother to child...

Mitochondria are passed on from the mother's egg to the child -

the father does not pass on mitochondria through his sperm.

In the severest cases the cells of the body are starved of energy.

It can lead to muscle weakness, blindness, heart failure :

and in some cases can be fatal. ::redface::

However, the resulting baby would contain genetic information from three people -

two parents and a donor woman. :wink:

1) Two embryos are fertilised with sperm creating an embryo from the intended parents and another from the donors.

2) The pronuclei, which contain genetic information, are removed from both embryos but only the parents' is kept

3) A healthy embryo is created by adding the parents' pronuclei to the donor embryo, which is finally implanted into the womb

Step 1. Eggs from a mother with damaged mitochondria and a donor with healthy mitochondria are collected.

Step 2. The majority of the genetic material is removed from both eggs.

Step 3. The mother's genetic material is inserted into the donor egg, which can be fertilised by sperm

Voila !!

there you have it Girls :

Making perfect Babbas !!  :kiss:

Imagine IF that had happened say , 50 years ago :

NO health issues !