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Scientists Head Towards Creating Baby With Three Parents to Eliminate Disease
Life News ^
| 8/27/09
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 08/27/2009 4:39:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
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The "brave new world" is here and it's as hellish as ANYTHING Dante described.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:39:31 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:40:21 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I see things like this and the only printable thought is “Lord Jesus, come quickly!”.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:41:33 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: wagglebee
This is truly frightening.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:41:49 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: wagglebee
Geez! Can you imagine the courts cases for child support this will cause?
3 daddies, 3 mommies, 2 daddies and a mommy, 2 mommies and a daddy......
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:42:55 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: wagglebee
Gee, it would be so awful if people could avoid passing on devastating mitochondrial defects to their children < /s>
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:43:12 PM PDT
by
GovernmentShrinker
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To: wagglebee
So people with sickle cell anemia, trey sacks, cystic fibrosis can have children that are theirs without passing on the gene for those traits.
Selfish perhaps, with so many children who need adoption; but “hellish”?
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:44:22 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
To: Nervous Tick; trisham
Do you even know what mitochondrial DNA is? Or what mitochondria are, for that matter?
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:44:24 PM PDT
by
GovernmentShrinker
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To: wagglebee
Ja, das master race ist kommen, nicht?
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:45:33 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Isn’t that what makes you a Jedi? < KIDDING! >
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:46:23 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(It takes a viking to raze a village!)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Gee, it would be so awful if people could avoid passing on devastating mitochondrial defects to their children < /s> So, you SUPPORT this?
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:47:07 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
“The only way to treat these defects is to replace the genes,” "so they'll only have to deal with personality defects later in life."
duh.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:47:22 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
((optional, printed after your name on post) ha ha ha)
To: beethovenfan
Not to mention the tortured monky!
To: allmendream
Actually this doesn’t help with any of those diseases. Those are all due to defects in the main, nuclear DNA, that comes from both parents. Mitochondrial DNA is outside cell nuclei, in the mitochondria, and is passed down only maternally. This process substitutes normal, healthy mitochondria from a donor egg, for the mother’s genetically defective mitochondria.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:48:01 PM PDT
by
GovernmentShrinker
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To: wagglebee
Absolutely. And I don’t think you even understand what it is.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:48:45 PM PDT
by
GovernmentShrinker
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To: wagglebee
I’m sure this will turn out well...Not...
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:55:03 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: GovernmentShrinker
Thanks, I noticed that reading the entire article; but figured the same concept could be used for such diseases, with the defective allele “donated” from a third parent.
I think this “third parent” thing is a bit overstated. 49.99% from mom and 49.99% from mom and some 16,000 bp of mitochondrial sequence out of some 3 billion from a donor.
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:58:22 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
To: GovernmentShrinker
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posted on
08/27/2009 4:59:10 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Oops...
Make that
“49.99% from dad, 49.99% from mom, and some 16,00 base pairs out of 3 billion from a donor”
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posted on
08/27/2009 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
To: wagglebee
Now what could possibly go wrong here?
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posted on
08/27/2009 5:04:01 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
("UPS and FEDEX are doing fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." - 0bummer)
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