This medical breakthrough is aimed at preventing genetic disease. Feast your eyes on the creation of a human embryo from 1 man and 2 women as reported by ABC news.
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by Navras, on February 13 2008:
I somehow had the feeling threesomes would someday make reproductive sense.
by Navras, on February 13 2008:
seriously, this has a lot of potential!
by Patricia, on February 13 2008:
This could really make a huge [positive] change!
by Navras, on February 14 2008:
Although this isn't the goal of the research, in the case that the donors and parents can't give birth do the child, you could have a 'four' parent embryo by having:
The fertilized egg from two (2) parents (providing genetic physical characteristics of the embryo), one (1) donor egg (providing a healthy mitochondrial DNA) and one gestational carrier (see gestational surrogacy).