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Three-Person Embryo ‘Ethical’ says Report

It is ethical, under certain conditions, to create an embryo from the DNA of three people, according to a new report.

The report from the Institute of Medicine said using DNA from three people, a man and two women, was ethical in certain situations. Researchers think creating embryos this way could one day prevent passing genetic diseases from one generation to the next.

The procedure concerns DNA only a mother can pass along.

Last year, Britain became the first country to approve the technique, which took defective DNA from one mother and replaced it with healthy material from a donated egg.

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Source : VOANews.Com