Using cells from a donor egg doesn’t create three ‘parents’. And while DNA is important, it’s not the defining feature of rainbow families.
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Groundbreaking treatment works, but why the ten-year silence?
A ban on clinical trials involving gene editing rules out the controversial procedure done in China. But it also prevents procedures that could offer couples a chance for healthy children without genetic disorders.
The concept of three-parent babies defies what we learned in health class. But how and when is the third parent involved? At what stage? Jennifer Barfield gives us an update on the birds and the bees.
It’s a landmark case but there are many unknowns.
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Assistant Professor, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Colorado State University
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Professor, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Medical and Family Sociology, De Montfort University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University