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Do three-parent babies suggest a future for genetically modified designer children?

Iain Brassington By Iain Brassington Filed Under: Health and Social Care, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted: December 16, 2016

Yesterday, the UK’s fertility regulator approved a new technique of mitochondrial transfer, which allows babies to be made from two women and one man in order to prevent children being born with serious genetic diseases. Dr Iain Brassington considers some of the potential legal, ethical and practical implications of the decision.     There is a specific legal exemption […]

Tagged With: babies, children, fertility, mitrochondial transfer, three-parent

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