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Latest embryo tests criticised
Keywords:
Human Reproduction, Reproduction, Fertility Medicine, Biology, Cryobiology, In Vitro Fertilisation, Fertility, Developmental Biology, Embryo, Embryo Transfer, Embryo Donation, Education
SCIENTISTS at Newcastle University have mastered a technique for creating an embryo with three separate parents, prompting criticism from pro-life groups.
The embryos were created using DNA from a man and two women in an effort to prevent women from passing on genetic defects to their children. Anthony Ozimic of SPUC said that the “vast majority” of embryos created in the tests were killed.
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