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Intriguing & slightly scary but this can help those who have this  problem.


https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65538866


"A baby has been born using three people's DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed
Most of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman.



The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.

Fewer than five such babies have been born, but no further details have been released
Mitochondrial diseases are incurable and can be fatal within days or even hours of birth. Some families have lost multiple children and this technique is seen as the only option for them to have a healthy child of their own.

Mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy."

Fewer than five such babies have been born, but no further details have been released.
Mitochondrial diseases are incurable and can be fatal within days or even hours of birth. Some families have lost multiple children and this technique is seen as the only option for them to have a healthy child of their own.
Mitochondria are the tiny compartments inside nearly every cell of the body that convert food into useable energy.

Defective mitochondria fail to fuel the body and lead to brain damage, muscle wasting, heart failure and blindness."
Fascinating.
I usually blame the milkman for this sort of thing (Multiple DNA)

Itwasntme
(11-05-2023, 10:27 PM)R2x1 Wrote: [ -> ]I usually blame the milkman for this sort of thing (Multiple DNA)

Itwasntme

Alas - with the demise of milkmen that's no longer possible! Blame neo Liberalism... Rolleyes Big Grin Big Grin
Concise, science based appraisal of the issue from Dr Campbell.


If they can avoid the "devastating mitochondrial diseases", will it be possible to eliminate gross stupidity in future generations?

I doubt it somehow, those who would have to authorise this sort of thing would wind up old, lonely and heirless. How would they stock the next-generation Beehive then?

Wink
(15-05-2023, 10:01 AM)R2x1 Wrote: [ -> ]If they can avoid the "devastating mitochondrial diseases", will it be possible to eliminate gross stupidity in future generations?

I doubt it somehow, those who would have to authorise this sort of thing would wind up old, lonely and heirless. How would they stock the next-generation Beehive then?

Wink

While I do quite like the image of the wind slowly blowing a scrap of paper around a deserted Beehive, emptied forever of politicians, I suspect that stupidity will be with  humanity forever.

Even the cleverest can sometimes do something stupendously stupid - just the nature of the human beast, I think.  Rolleyes Big Grin