The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has told a New York-based doctor that he cannot go ahead with clinical trials meant to test a technique that aims at creating a genetically modified child.
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Pending a final decision by the House of Lords, the UK is about to approve a procedure to produce “three parent” children via IVF (in vitro fertilization), but scientists aren't waiting for the ink to dry on the new law and are already publishing ads looking for healthy young women who are willing to sell their eggs to science for the equivalent of $700.
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Britain’s Parliament voted yesterday to allow scientists to create genetically engineered three-parent embryos, making it the first country in the world to permit the procedure.
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A prestigious British bioethics group has given the thumbs up to a controversial procedure that uses eggs from two different women to produce an embryo in order to help couples avoid the risk of having a baby with certain genetic diseases.
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