Shobita Dhar, TNN Jul 21, 2013, 04.06AM IST (Dr Manish Banker, director…) Mayuri Singhal, 36, married into a fair-skinned family. She herself is what is often described in matrimonial columns as ‘wheatish’. When she couldn’t conceive, she walked into… Read More ›
Embryo
Designer baby warning as embryos are made using TWO women and one man by Oregon scientists
Procedure would swap the nucleus of a mother’s egg containing mutated genes into a donor’s The donor’s normal mitochondria replaces the mother’s defective mitochondria containing mutated DNA Donor’s genes would amount to 1 per cent of the embryo’s genes and… Read More ›
Genetically engineering ‘ethical’ babies is a moral obligation, says Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics
Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just ‘responsible parenting’, claims an eminent Oxford academic By Richard Alleyne 3:33PM BST 16 Aug 2012 Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral… Read More ›