DNA Breakthrough: Heather Really Does Have Two Mommies

Hmm. Well, Heather would have to be a monkey for the headline to actually be correct. But I suppose they could name one of the four offspring from two mother's DNA Heather, right? Coming to a medical ethics debate near you.

Scientists have produced monkeys with genetic material from two mothers, an advance that could help women with some inherited diseases have healthy children but which would raise a host of safety, legal, ethical and social questions if attempted in people.

Using cloning-related techniques, the researchers developed a way to replace most of the genes in the eggs from one rhesus macaque monkey with those from another, fertilized the eggs with sperm, transferred the resulting embryos into animals' wombs and produced four apparently healthy offspring.

The technique was developed for women who carry disorders caused by defects in a form of DNA passed only from females to their children, and the researchers said they hoped work will eventually translate into therapies for people.

Comments

[Rich K]

Oh Boy. More good news for those ladies of the carpet who hate having meat in the sandwich of life process. Who needs men anyway,we are all Bastards!

[tally]

Oh Hell NO

[seekeronos]

Just wait. Next up will be combining two spermatozoa from two gay men and implanting it into a stripped-down egg.

Or perhaps outright genetic manipulations right into the embryo itself: the days of the Nephilim and chimearas and eugenics, oh my.

Dr. Goebbels couldn't be more pleased.