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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] As I understand it, and the article is a bit unclear (or I'm parsing it wrong), the issue is that two people want to have children but the mother has genetically linked diseases in her mitochondria (these are organelles that are outside of the nucleus where the majority of your DNA lies). 1) The couple create embryos from the first couple, they take the embryos out from the egg 2) The scientists take a second egg, "hollow it out" and stick in the embryo from the first couple 3) Somehow (and I'm unclear how), the result is that the resulting child will incorporate normal nuclear DNA from the first couple and mitochondrial DNA from the second couple, bypassing the diseases. If they simply had the second couple get pregnant, all the DNA would be from the second couple. This way, the child has the vast majority of DNA from the first couple, a much smaller less important amount from the second couple. In the Star Trek tradition, I'll create a simple analogy. Imagine that a new embryo is like a hybrid Ford. There are two engines, one gasoline and one electric. The one that is electric has problems so while they create the blueprints for the car, they swap in a new electric engine from a Honda. The resulting car is still a Ford, it just happens to use a second electric engine from Honda. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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